Notorious ‘sandwich attack’ bot Jaredfromsubway.eth exploited for $7.5M

Written by Cointelegraphstaff writerReviewed by Felix Ngstaff editorWritten by Cointelegraphstaff writerReviewed by Felix Ngstaff editorNotorious ‘sandwich attack’ bot Jaredfromsubway.eth exploited for $7.5MLatest NewsPublishedJun 21, 2026Jaredfromsubway.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 execution system 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.It’s a rare comeuppance for MEV (maximal extractable value) bots like Jaredfromsubway.eth, which are automated programs that monitor unconfirmed transactions on blockchain networks and manipulate their order to extract profit, a kind of “invisible tax” on DeFi users. Cointelegraph Research previously found that sandwich attacks on Ethereum have resulted in about $60 million in annual losses for traders. The research also found that between November 2024 and October 2025, there were 60,000 to 90,000 sandwich attacks per month, with roughly 70% of them associated with Jaredfromsubway.eth.How Jaredfromsubway.eth was exploited“This was a counter-MEV honeypot attack, as it specifically targeted the automated, trust-minimized decision-making logic that MEV bots utilize,” Blockaid chief technology officer Raz Niv told Cointelegraph.Over several weeks, the attacker deployed 66 fake token contracts that mimicked the names and interfaces of Wrapped ETH, USDC, and USDt and then paired that with fake liquidity pools, said Niv. The fakes were d…

Notorious ‘sandwich attack’ bot Jaredfromsubway.eth exploited for $7.5M

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