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The $8m Platypus flash loan attack was made possible because of code that was in the wrong order, according to a post mortem report from Platypus auditor Omniscia. The auditing company claims the problematic code didn’t exist in the version they saw. In light of the recent @Platypusdefi incident the
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As the team behind Nomad Bridge works on relaunching the platform, a fresh movement of 1200 ETH has been noticed from one of the wallet addresses linked to the hack.A wallet address belonging to Nomad Bridge, which faced a $190 million exploit last week, has recently moved a total of
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Arbitrum-based lending protocol Lodestar Finance was exploited in a flash loan attack on Dec. 10. According to Lodestar, the attacker manipulated the price of the plvGLP token before borrowing all platform liquidity using the inflated token.In a Twitter thread, Lodestar explained the attack flow. The attacker first manipulated the exchange
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The attacker was able to mint 6 quadrillion aBNBc tokens, which they eventually turned into around 5 million USDC Original Source
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On Thursday, decentralized finance, or DeFi, lockup protocol Team Finance said over $14.5 million worth of tokens were exploited though the Uniswap V2 to V3 migration function on its platform. As told by blockchain security firm PeckShield, the hacker transferred liquidity from Uniswap V2 assets on Team Finance to an
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Moola, a decentralized finance (defi) lending and borrowing platform, was recently exploited for $8.4 million in what has been described as an “incredibly simple attack.” Moola responded to the attack by pausing all activity on the platform. The defi platform also told the attacker(s) it was willing to negotiate a
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Blockchain cybersecurity company Certik has said a vulnerable private key was attacked in the Wintermute hack. A vulnerability in private keys generated by the Profanity app was likely exploited. The vulnerability has been known since at least January.The U.K.-based algorithmic crypto market maker announced the hack on Tuesday and said
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Developers said they are working with authorities and forensic specialists to identify the culprit. Original Source
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Blockchain data apparently shows the exploiters flash borrowed over 27,000 wrapped bitcoin from lending protocol Aave to conduct the attack. The funds were routed through swap service Curve for various stablecoins before being used to remove DOLA, a stablecoin, from Inverse Finance pools. Source
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The decentralized finance (DeFi) space has been rife with hacks, exploits, and scams so far this year with over $1.6 billion in crypto stolen from users, surpassing the total amount stolen in 2020 and 2021 combined.Analysis from blockchain security firm CertiK revealed the statistics on May 2 showing the month
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