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The Ethereum core developer's cryptocurrency Wallet was drained by a malicious AI extension.
A core Ethereum developer stated that he was attacked by a cryptocurrency wallet drainer related to a fake encryption assistant, demonstrating that even veteran programmers can fall victim to increasingly sophisticated scams.
Zak Cole, an Ethereum developer, lost money due to installing a malicious AI extension from Cursor AI, which allowed the attacker to access his hot wallet for 3 days before draining the funds on August 10. The extension "contractshark.solidity-lang" looked legitimate with a professional icon, clear description, and over 54,000 downloads, but quietly extracted the private key from the .env file and sent it to the attacker's server.
Cole said he only lost a few hundred USD in ETH due to using a small hot wallet, separating it for testing and storing his main assets on a hardware wallet. Experts warn that fake extensions and VS Code are becoming major attack channels, advising to carefully check plugins, avoid storing keys in text form, and prioritize hardware wallets.