mohammad nankali, radio and television news agency. a crypto hacker stole 1 million dollars of cryptocurrency in one week by means of address poisoning. security experts recommend that investors verify the validity of the destination wallet address when making a deposit. a web fraud detection platform 3 reported that about 10 secure wallets lost more than $2 million in crypto through address poisoning , according to information collected by scamsniffer, the attacker lost at least $5 million in the past four months. stole from 21 victims address spoofing happens when the attacker creates an address similar to the address to which the victim regularly sends money, usually with the same beginning and end characters as the original address. the newly created wallet is sent to the victim's wallet to poison his transaction history. when the victim wants to send an amount to the permanent wallet , he mistakenly copies the same address from the transaction history section and instead of the intended destination, sends to the hacker's wallet .