Thieves compromised BitKeep cryptocurrency wallets after creating an “unofficial” Android app, resulting in the theft of funds from user wallets.

About $8 million worth of assets were stolen, according to PeckShield, a provider of blockchain security services.

#PeckShieldAlert #BitKeep reported that several users’ funds were stolen, the official indicated that it may have been due to downloading a hacked APK version

So far, $8 million worth of assets have been stolen, including some 4373 $BNB5.4M $USDT196k $DAIand 1233.21 $ETH pic.twitter.com/ZdomZGFWRO

— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) December 26, 2022

The theft appears to have been done by downloading hacked and maliciously coded unofficial APK packages.

BitKeep has advised users to transfer their funds to the official Chrome plugin wallet or app downloaded from the official store, create a new wallet address, and keep their mnemonic phrase safe.

The enterprise specified that the theft was mainly due to the hijacking of the APK 7.2.9 and warned users to be careful when using unofficial versions.

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Security firm Hacken has reported that nearly $6 million worth of cryptocurrency assets have been stolen in an ongoing attack in which the attacker “directly moves customers’ money elsewhere.”

Hacken said the stolen funds were transferred to a Binance smart chain wallet and an Ethereum wallet, which received two large outgoing transactions totaling 709 and 504 ether, or nearly $865,000 and $615,000, respectively.

Multi-chain data provider OKLink has announced that it has invested a total of $31 million in various assets across the Binance Smart Chain, ether ETH/USD, Tron TRX/USDand polygon MATIC/USD were taken in the ongoing attack.

【12-26 #BitKeep Hack Event Summary】

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According to OKLink data, Bitkeep theft affected 4 chains BSC, ETH, TRX, Polygon, OKLink included 50 hacker addresses…