Some people use a Telegram-based crypto trading bot called "Banana Gun" to "snipe" crypto trades, copytrade, and perform other activities. On September 19, at least 11 victims lost around $3 million after their accounts were apparently compromised and drained.
Banana Gun acknowledged the attack on Twitter and shut down the bot. They posted that they did not believe their backend was compromised, and stated that they believed the attack occurred via a "front-end vulnerability" — though it was not clear what this might have referred to.
- "Telegram bot Banana Gun’s users drained of over $1.9M" , CoinTelegraph