Infosec researchers note increasing cryptocurrency attacks and have encouraged wallet security providers to up their collective game.
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Check Point specifically cites the growth of attacks abusing Ethereum's CREATE2 opcode, calling it a "critical issue in the blockchain community" that sees assets worth millions of dollars drained from victims' wallets.
Introduced in 2019, CREATE2 is seen as a significant advance for Ethereum, enabling more efficient implementations of smart contracts – the technology that validates transactions on the blockchain.
CREATE2 is also the function exploited by attackers to drain tokens from victims' wallets.
