Jaredfromsubway | Crypto

The Jaredfromsubway MEV bot, linked to roughly 70% of Ethereum sandwich attacks, lost more than $7.5 million in an allowance drain after its automated system authorized attacker-controlled contracts to spend its tokens. The bot, known as Jaredfromsubway.eth, approved a series of transactions that appeared to be part of profitable trading routes. Those permissions remained active, […] The post Ethereum’s Jaredfromsubway MEV bot drained after approving its own $7.5M theft appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Jaredfromsubway.eth was responsible for 70% of sandwich attacks on Ethereum between November 2024 and October 2025. One of the most successful MEV bots in crypto, Jaredfromsubway.eth, has been drained for more than $7.5 million, with an attacker exploiting the bot’s automated systems, the same ones that have netted it hundreds of millions over the years. According to Blockaid, the incident on Saturday resulted from attacker-controlled contracts tricking Jaredfromsubway.eth’s automated MEV (maximal extractable value) execution system bot into granting token approvals that were later used to drain funds. “This is not a classic phishing attack and not a traditional smart-contract vulnerability in the victim contract,” Blockaid said on X. Read more