When it comes to dust attacks, in order for a dust attack to be able to take place initially, the funds need to be transferred first. This occurs whenever an attacker wants you to add that dust to other funds in the same wallet and then send it out. Through this procedure, the attacker will essentially find out all of the exchanges under that specific wallet through the usage of various technological means, which would result in the attacker knowing who the wallet owner actually is. In this case, an owner is an object of a series of phishing, cyber extortion, and targeting hacks that occur outside the blockchain network. Typically, most decentralized finance (DeFi) wallets will make it impossible to reach owners from their blockchain addresses. However, the centralized counterparts to these wallets, such as those found on centralized exchanges, do require a specific level of Know-Your-Customer (KYC) verification, and as such, a dust attack would leave these users vulnerable.