including CertiK<\/a>.<\/p>\nBad actors and Ice Phishing<\/h2>\n
A privileged getAmount function was used to drain the Harvest Keeper contract and transfer over $700,000 in USDT to an unknown address, according to CertiK.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a smaller amount was stolen through ice phishing transactions across BSC, Ethereum, and Polygon, resulting in approximately $219,000 in losses. Ice phishing is a type of web3 attack that deceives users into manually granting permissions by signing and approving requests.<\/p>\n
The recent events have left users in a state of distress, and many are expressing their frustration within the crypto community. Some have even resorted to reaching out to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao for assistance.<\/p>\n
What is Harvest Keeper AI?<\/h2>\n
Founded earlier this year, Harvest Keeper was billed as allowing you to maximize on cryptocurrency trades through AI algorithms. According to Markus Peters, founder of Harvest Keeper:<\/p>\n
“[Harvest Keeper's] decentralized protocol interacts with a trading bot, using built-in artificial intelligence to analyze patterns like risk, news sources and many other factors that effect the price formation of various crypto assets.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The AI dApp marketed itself as \u201can innovative project based on artificial intelligence, which completely eliminates the human factor from trading, creating an opportunity to generate profits 24 hours a day.\u201d According to the project's claims, users could receive daily rewards of 4.81% and see their investment grow to 101% within three weeks.<\/p>\n
Certik is advising people to stay away from all links relating to the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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