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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.The attacker who stole $46 million from the KyberSwap protocol has used a complex strategy described by a DeFi expert as an “infinite
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The attacker had said negotiations would start when they are "fully rested," and hasn't been heard from since. Source
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The attacker who drained $46 million from KyberSwap relied on a “complex and carefully engineered smart contract exploit” to carry out the attack, according to a social media thread by Ambient exchange founder Doug Colkitt. Colkitt labeled the exploit an “infinite money glitch.” According to him, the attacker took advantage of
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A flash loan attack on the BNB Chain has resulted in the largest single arbitrage profit in its history, according to security experts. The attacker exploited a price manipulation vulnerability on the BH token (BH) and made off with $1.27 million in USDT. As reported by Chinese journalist Colin Wu on Oct.
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An estimated $4 billion worth of malicious token issuances on PolyNetwork will not bear much money for attackers due to low liquidity and security precautions. Original Source
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Sturdy Finance has lost 442 Ether (ETH), worth almost $800,000 when writing, to a security exploit. The attacker exploited a vulnerability that eventually manipulated a faulty price oracle, allowing them to drain funds from the protocol. On June 12, blockchain security firm PeckShield alerted Sturdy Finance and
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The proposal looks as though it will pass when voting closes on May 26, though it's unclear when the action will be executed. However, if it does, the malicious code will be removed and the governance of Tornado Cash's DAO will go back to token holders. Source
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Just a day after an attacker sparked community-wide panic after hijacking the Tornado Cash governance, a new proposal hints at the possible restoration of the state of governance.On May 21, the passing of a malicious proposal allowed an attacker to gain complete control over Tornado Cash’s governance. With total control
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Given the attacker's holdings of TORN governance tokens, the proposal looks as though it will pass when voting closes on May 26, though it's unclear when the action will be executed. When the proposal passes, the malicious code that the attacker integrated into the protocol, which allowed them to steal
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