[An Ethereum address dormant for 11 years was "poisoned" by hackers 3 minutes after it resurfaced] BlockBeats reported that on November 10th, a wallet address starting with 0x7dD, dating back to the Ethereum genesis block of 2015, transferred out 0.05 ETH (approximately $106) at 6:04 AM Beijing time. The test receiving address started with 0x1321beb8 and ended with 1A44. This address received its first Ethereum in the July 2015 genesis block and then received another 755 ETH in March 2016, after which it had never transferred out any funds until this transaction. The on-chain monitoring account Whale Alert flagged this test transaction. Within approximately 3 minutes of the test transfer being sent, the old wallet began receiving multiple small ETH transfers from two spoofed target addresses. One address started with 0x13211f, and the other with 0x1321FB, both ending with 1A44. Etherscan data showed that the accounts providing funds to these two addresses were labeled "Fake_Phishing," with the more active address sending 43 dust transfers. This type of technique is known as address poisoning, where attackers write similar-looking addresses into the target's transaction history, enticing the holder to copy the incorrect address from recent records and transfer large sums of money. At 6:20 AM Beijing time, the aforementioned new address transferred out 0.01 ETH, which was almost entirely returned approximately 3 minutes later. Then, at 6:42, approximately 38 minutes after the initial test transfer, the old wallet transferred 2,154.94 ETH, equivalent to about $4.6 million, to the correct address 0x1321beb8. This new address currently holds approximately 2,155 ETH. Citigroup warned in January that address poisoning and spam transactions were driving up the number of transactions on the Ethereum network, with many transfers totaling less than $1. [Original Link]