TL;DR
The official PEPE website was confirmed to have been hacked, redirecting users to malicious pages.
This breach allowed the injection of harmful code identified as part of the Inferno Drainer toolkit, which has been used in several recent phishing attacks in the sector. Users who accessed the site may have had their digital wallets compromised.
The threat remains active as the project team investigates and works to secure the domain. Exchanges and analytics platforms immediately alerted the community to avoid the site until security is restored. So far, PEPE has not provided a detailed report on how the breach occurred, but analysts note that the incident once again exposes vulnerabilities in the web architecture of token projects.
At the same time, the memecoin was showing unusual behavior against Dogecoin on the weekly chart. The token had recorded its second consecutive green week, the first since June, as the PEPE/DOGE pair bounced from a long-term support zone at the base of its ascending channel.
This recovery had broken the downtrend line that guided the last selling phase, creating a slight shift in momentum to the upside. Despite this, PEPE still trades below mid-range levels and the peaks reached during its early 2024 rally.
However, with Bitcoin’s pullback and the resulting market drag, PEPE’s current price is $0.000004389 after a 9.2% drop in the last 24 hours. Its volume decreased 5.3% and exceeds $363 million. The memecoin is once again under scrutiny from traders and analysts. The community is closely monitoring the website’s status while evaluating whether the token will recover or deepen its decline
