The attacker first drained Binance 14 starting 20:24 UTC in a single transaction worth about $2.5B, minutes after Binance’s own signing infrastructure, under the attacker’s control, signed an EIP-7702 authorization delegating it to an attacker-deployed sweeper.
Blockaid said the attacker first drained a Binance wallet it calls Binance 14 starting 20:24 UTC in a single transaction worth about $2.5B, minutes after Binance's own signing infrastructure, which it said was under the attacker's control, signed an EIP-7702 authorization delegating it to an attacker-deployed sweeper.
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Blockaid, which sells a product called Cosigner that rejects malicious transactions before signing, wrote its analysis of the Binance incident.
Blockaid Cosigner is an independent signing layer that sits on a wallet and utilizes signals from our exploit detection engine to reject malicious transactions.
Blockaid said its transaction security engine classified the delegation transaction as malicious because an EOA was being upgraded through EIP-7702 to an untrusted address.
Blockaid's transaction security engine classified the type-4 transaction that delegated Binance 14 as malicious on sight, with the reason that an EOA was being upgraded through EIP-7702 to an untrusted address.
Blockaid said its detection flagged the drain under two minutes after the sweep and before any public report.
Blockaid’s detection flagged the drain under two minutes after the sweep and before any public report
Blockaid said the EIP-7702 delegation was visible on-chain for three minutes and 24 seconds before the sweep.
The delegation itself was visible onchain for three minutes and 24 seconds before the sweep
Blockaid said the operator address 0x7C8601d4645b93cea45F71e118A729332e6B5CA0 was funded through three Tornado Cash withdrawals starting October 28.
The operator address, 0x7C8601d4645b93cea45F71e118A729332e6B5CA0 , was funded through three Tornado Cash withdrawals starting October 28.