# Attackers Are Getting Victims to Deploy Their Own Wallet Drainers Through Fake Trading-Bot Tutorials

TRM Labs, a blockchain analytics firm, traced 274.6 ether, worth roughly $517,000, from 224 victims who followed step-by-step videos promising an artificial-intelligence arbitrage bot.

- Published: 2026-09-20T05:45:09.559Z
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TRM Labs, the blockchain analytics firm, identified nine near-identical YouTube tutorials presented as the work of separate creators but showing signs of common production. The videos walk viewers through building an arbitrage bot: set up a…

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