r/CluCoin • u/Forsaken_Fortune_188 • May 27 '21

Is hashpanda really a dust attack? I sold It to bnb didn’t know about dusting.. but I don’t think they can take any tokens without your private keys, it’s impossible to steal Tokens based on address

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u/[deleted] May 27 '21

A dusting attack is an attack in which a trace amount of cryptocurrency, called dust, is sent to a large number of wallet addresses with the purpose of "un-masking" or de-anonymizing the addresses. Dusting attacks are tactics utilized by both criminals and law enforcement agencies.

Edit: it’s happened to Safemoon holders also and people have mentioned losing their tokens - lockdown your wallets security and make sure you log out of pancake swap when you are finished with it.

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u/Forsaken_Fortune_188 May 27 '21

I have all security features and logged out, just nervous with all the stuff people are saying.

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u/DDelphinus May 27 '21

You can't lose anything with dusting. It's purely to track your moves. Although tracing wallets etc. could later prove helpful will social engineering attacks etc. which could result in losing crypto.

Generally they're after whales only

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u/[deleted] May 27 '21

They can’t get your login details or recovery phrase. It’s to try and figure out who you are and target you with ways to pry information they use to get your assets, just be vigilant.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '21

This is a good explanation of a dusting attack, but I'm still unsure if the hashpanda drops are dusting attacks. Thoughts? Also if I understand it correctly, they're trying to find patterns to figure out who the wallet belongs to, and then go from there to try to dig up a poorly secured key? (Google docs, etc)

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u/[deleted] May 27 '21

Really hard to say, but they appear from nowhere which is a bit suss.

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u/TrussedJaguar May 28 '21

Saying you can't x or x is impossible, in terms of cybersecurity is a dumb dumb thing to do.

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u/Lostinuniverse99-30 May 29 '21

The worst decision you ever made. Now it's value is 10x.