FLOKI trading bot taken offline after exploit; users told to stop depositing into bot wallets

Summary

On 5 November 2026 the FLOKI team announced it is investigating an exploit of the FLOKI trading bot discovered in the early hours of that morning. The bot has been taken offline while the team confirms which users were affected. Affected users will be moved to new, secure wallets and any remaining funds transferred to them.

Affected

• FLOKI trading bot (@flokitradingbot) user bot wallets; the affected users have not yet been identified publicly
• No fix available at time of publication; the bot is offline

Impact

The team describes an exploit affecting bot user funds. The root cause, the chains involved, the amount lost and the number of affected users have not been disclosed at time of publication.

Recommended actions

• Do not deposit funds into your FLOKI bot wallet until further notice.
• If you exported your bot wallet's private key and it still holds funds, move them to a wallet only you control.
• FLOKI states its team will never DM you first or ask for your seed phrase or private key; ignore anyone offering "refunds" or "recovery".

Source & attribution

This 0xCERT advisory summarises an announcement by the FLOKI team: https://x.com/FLOKI/status/2118381080260608281. Corroborated by The Defiant (https://thedefiant.io/news/security/floki-takes-trading-bot-offline-amid-exploit-investigation) and listed in SlowMist Hacked (https://hacked.slowmist.io/). Details may change; refer to the original source for the authoritative record.