Events Under the Spotlight
Smart Contracts of the ApeCoin Exploited
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT owner exploited a vulnerability in ApeCoin (APE) smart contract on Ethereum to walk away with USD 380K in profit.
The airdrop happened in the initial minutes of the BAYC DAO launch.
Discord Server of MekaVerse Compromised
A collection of 8,888 unique NFTs, MekaVerse Tweeted that their Discord server was hacked.
Veve Suspends Marketplace after Token Theft
VeVe NFT project notified that their systems were exploited, resulting in more gems being obtained.
As a precaution, the market was closed, and collectibles trading was suspended.
Millions Lost as Solana DeFi App Cashio Hacked
Cashio, a stablecoin project on Solana, was hacked by exploiting an infinite mint glitch.
The Cashio platform experienced a total loss of $52 Million.
Samczsun, a white hat hacker, released an event postmortem following the hack.
RealSwak rug pulled investors
RealSwak rug pulled investors and transferred
1,300 BNB
them through Tornado Cash.It resulted in a loss of $531,700 to the investors.
The project team deleted their social media handles.
Flash loan attack on One Ring protocol
OneRing Finance, a stablecoin yield optimizer platform on Fantom network, suffered a flash loan attack that drained
1,454,672.24 USDC
from the platform.The contract has been paused, and the team will reimburse the affected users.
An unchecked vulnerability in the Umbrella Network compromised
Umbrella Network is a decentralized layer-2 oracle provider.
Its UniSwap on Ethereum and PancakeSwap pools on Binance Chain were compromised by exploiting an unchecked vulnerability in the
withdraw()
function.The attacker drained $700,000 in the form of LP tokens from the oracle data provider.
Li Finance protocol loses $600,000
Li.Finance, enabling DEXs, dApps, and wallets with cross-chain swaps suffered an attack on its smart contracts.
The attacker was able to extract varying amounts of 10 different tokens from wallets that had given “infinite approval” to the Li Finance protocol.
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