The Anatomy of Address Poisoning on Ethereum: Funding Mechanisms, Scam Signatures, and Laundering via Tornado Cash

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Son Hoang Dau, Thanh Nguyen, Phuong Duy Huynh, Hong Yen Tran, Nicholas Huppert, Jeff Nijsse, Huong Ha, Xun Yi)

Summary by Cyber Security News22 Sep 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2609.23405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Address-Poisoning Transfer (APT) is a prevalent blockchain phishing scam in which a scammer poisons a victim's address book by generating a transfer with a phishing address that looks similar to a benign address that the victim has previously interacted with. Although simple, APT phishing attacks have cost users millions of dollars in recent years, which has captured the attention of the research community (Ye et al.

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