Address poisoners target an Ethereum genesis wallet dormant for 11 years, launching an attack minutes after a test transfer

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An Ethereum genesis wallet initiated a 0.05 ETH test transfer after 11 years of inactivity, and received a small amount of ETH from an address poisoner less than 3 minutes later. The wallet holder ignored the similar address and transferred 2,154.94 ETH to the correct address 38 minutes later; the attacker exploited the wallet’s truncated addresses and tainted its transaction history to trick the user into sending funds to the wrong address.