Suspected of being involved in over $300 million, British crypto hacker arrested in Dubai

2025-12-05 06:02:39

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[Chain News] On-chain detective ZachXBT revealed that the notorious UK attacker Danny (also known as Meech, real name possibly Danish Zulfiqar) has reportedly been arrested in Dubai. Law enforcement seems to have been monitoring him for a long time—his wallet address 0xb37d… is now frozen, holding over $18.58 million in assets.

This guy’s “track record” is quite something. He is suspected of involvement in the massive $243 million Genesis creditor case in 2024; he was also implicated in the 2023 Kroll SIM swap incident that affected a large number of customers from BlockFi, Genesis, and FTX. In addition, he has a slew of social engineering scams attributed to him. Rough calculations put the total amount involved at well over $300 million.

Getting caught in Dubai this time serves as a warning to those still committing crimes in the shadows—every transaction on the blockchain leaves a trace; you may escape for a while, but not forever.

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Degen4Breakfast

· 7h ago

Someone finally dug up this rat. Is this $300 million case really coming to an end just like that? The Dubai police are really ruthless.

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OnChainDetective

· 11h ago

Wait, I need to dig into the fund flows of this wallet address again. Is $18.58 million just sitting there? There must be earlier transaction records that have been wiped. Which institutional addresses did that 0xb37d address interact with before? That’s the key—what’s been frozen on the surface is just the tip of the iceberg. The $243 million+ SIM card scam case— the real number could be double. I suspect there are even more wallets that haven’t been discovered.

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CrossChainMessenger

· 19h ago

Wait, arrested in Dubai? This guy is really done for? Someone is finally taking the fall for that $300 million case. --- Haha, this day should've come a long time ago. That SIM card scam screwed over so many people. --- 18.58 million frozen on-chain, there's no way he's getting away now. --- The name Danny is notorious in the community, but it's still satisfying to finally see news of his arrest. --- All the GenesisBlockFi mess is finally going to be settled, feels good. --- Told you the dark web would crash sooner or later. Waiting for Dubai this time was worth it. --- This guy really pushed his luck, $300 million, that's insane.

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fomo_fighter

· 12-05 06:30

Damn, finally caught this guy. A "performance" of $300 million is insane, and he just crashed in Dubai like that? The moment the wallet got frozen, $18.58 million was gone instantly. This pace... feels kind of satisfying. These SIM card hacker tricks are really impossible to guard against on-chain. We really need to be more cautious. Even Dubai is starting to cooperate with law enforcement now. Looks like there's really no safe haven for crypto crime anymore. This guy moved such large sums, and yet it took this long for him to go down. When were those earlier cases? The response was a bit slow. Throwing around $300 million over such a long time—imagine how many people had to get scammed for that to accumulate. But on the other hand, being able to trace everything so clearly on-chain proves that transparency really is a double-edged sword. Now other hackers are going to be scared, and Dubai is no longer a paradise.

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BlockchainDecoder

· 12-05 06:24

According to research, the key to this incident lies in the execution efficiency of the on-chain asset freezing mechanism—an instant freeze of $18.58 million. From a technical perspective, this indeed reflects the pace of cross-border law enforcement coordination. Notably, the wallet tracking technology behind this is already quite mature. Data shows that this guy's "track record" over the past three years has accumulated over $300 million, but what I'm curious about is—why did it take so long to take action? The on-chain footprints are so obvious; were they waiting for a bigger net to be cast? From a technical architecture point of view, SIM swap as an attack vector actually exposes the vulnerability of exchanges’ two-factor authentication. Citing a 2023 security audit report, the success rate of this kind of social engineering scam is still over 40%, which is truly alarming. To be honest, the most ironic part of this incident is that the $18.58 million frozen is just the tip of the iceberg. The real dirty money has probably long been scattered through mixers and cross-chain protocols, right? The arrests in Dubai seem more like a political gesture.

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MEVHunter

· 12-05 06:22

ngl the wallet freeze is chef's kiss... dude thought he could just arbitrage people's entire lives like it's mempool toxicity. $300M in damages and they finally caught the backrun? about damn time honestly

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GasWrangler

· 12-05 06:21

honestly if you actually ran the mempool analysis on his wallet movements, the transaction patterns were demonstrably fraudulent from day one... $300M+ and the chain literally caught him. technically speaking, this is what happens when you don't optimize your operational security — sub-optimal OPSEC is empirically the downfall here

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TokenomicsDetective

· 12-05 06:16

Damn, did this guy finally go down? $300 million, that's a lot of trouble he stirred up. Wait, the $18.58 million frozen is just the tip of the iceberg, right? Where’s the real bulk of it? Dubai making arrests shows that law enforcement in different countries is really starting to coordinate. These guys have been flaunting it on-chain for way too long. That SIM card incident was truly outrageous—just a bit of social engineering and clients from several major exchanges got wiped out. Thinking about it now is scary. This should serve as a wake-up call for all hackers. No matter how hidden you are, you can’t escape.

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AirdropHunter

· 12-05 06:12

Oh wow, this guy finally got taken down. $300 million in "earnings" frozen just like that—so satisfying. Someone should've dealt with these bad apples a long time ago. Now they don't even dare hide out in Dubai. Once the wallets are frozen, I bet a whole bunch of people are going to lose sleep over this. This is real on-chain justice—better than anything else. $18.58 million just gone like that. Too bad it wasn't mine.

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