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Hashing Bits | Week-51
Events Under the Spotlight
Monkey NFTs Discord Server Hacked
Monkey NFT, a Hong Kong based metaverse project, disclosed its Discord server was hacked which resulted in hackers stealing $1.3M in $SOL from the community.
The hacker attacked Grape Protocol, a social network management tool on Solana, taking advantage of a vulnerability and took over the administrative account to post phishing link in the announcement channel.
Monkey NFT has reimbursed amounts to the affected users.
Justin Kan NFT Platform Massive Breach Leads to Thousand-Dollar Theft! 100,000 Users Affected
Justin Kan’s NFT platform Fractal, which was supposed to launch on Christmas, experienced a community wide hack which resulted in a total loss of $600K and 100,000 affected users.
The hacker gained access to Fractal project Discord server’s announcement channel who then encouraged community members to pay for new NFTs and promised them 3,333 NFTs.
The direct link which took members to a site asking to mint NFTs for 1 $SOL was found to be fake (phishing URL).
According to the team, the hacker made $150,000 or ~ 800 SOL.
Recipient got an email from their website form with an Ethereum address and the private key
A scam was uncovered where the scammers reveal Ethereum wallet address with private key.
The user needs to add ETH to cash-out the wallet but cannot sell the tokens due to the low liquidity in the pool.
The wallet is publicly monitored and transferred funds are instantly withdrawn by the scammers.
Visor Finance Suffers another DeFi Hack as Losses Mount Up to $8.2M
Visor Finance, a DeFi protocol for liquidity management, fell victim to an exploit for vVISR staking smart contract.
A malicious contract drained 8,812,958 VISR tokens.
The project will implement token migration based on a snapshot before the exploit.
As a result of the hack, the price of the $VISR token plunged to 95%. The total loss is $8.2 Million.
WePiggy-OEC protocol experienced a short-term error in the CHE oracle
WePiggy, a DeFi bank, experienced a short-term error in the CHE oracle causing the CHE price to be much higher than the actual market price.
The team has started compensation. The team also released a detailed analysis of the hack.
Bent Finance Suffered an Exploit
Bent Finance, a staking and farming platform, notified the community of an exploit discovered after Bent Finance was added to DeBank from the Bent Finance deployer address and requested users to withdraw their funds.
All rewards have been paused while the team investigates the Bent Curve LP pool. Detailed analysis by the team available here.
Fantom DeFi Project Grim Finance Exploited for $30M
Grim Finance, a compound income platform, suffered flash loan attack with the exceeding loss of $30 Million.
Smart contracts have been suspended at the time of writing.
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In the future, SocialFi will become an important part of the decentralized metaverse.
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