Beleaguered DeFi project xToken suffers second major exploit since May
xToken has been exploited for around $4.5 million following the latest attack targeting the DeFi protocol’s smart contracts. The decentralized finance project xToken has suffered another exploit over the weekend after hackers discovered a vulnerability in the smart contracts for its xSNX product.On Aug. 29, the xToken team reported that the attack had resulted in roughly $4.5 million worth of funds being drained from xToken’s xSNX product — which allows users to gain exposure to Synthetix-based assets without directly interacting with the protocol’s complex smart contracts. Our xSNX....
Related News
Zabu Finance, a decentralized yield farming protocol on Avalanche, suffered the first big hack related to the chain. The protocol was the victim of an exploit that allowed an attacker to steal $3.2 million in tokens, according to reports. The core of the exploit happened due to a vulnerability in the design of the Spore token, which allowed the minting of 4.5 billion zabu that were successfully withdrawn from the platform, taking the value of the currency to 0.
Zabu Finance Suffers First Big Avalanche Hack
Zabu Finance, a yield farm decentralized protocol built on top of the Avax....
After a boast about the protocol's resiliency, Value DeFi loses $6 million to flash loan exploit. Following a Twitter thread on Friday that highlighted the decentralized finance protocol’s flash loan exploit prevention methodology, Value DeFi appears to have been the victim of a $6 million flash loan exploit. At roughly 10:45 AM EST, a user took out a flashloan of 80,000 ETH (over $36 million) from lending protocol Aave. Aave developer Emilio Frangella immediately called attention to the loan:80.000 eth flashloan on @AaveAave https://t.co/ngnHIoNKpi— Emilio Frangella (@The3D_)....
The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) called Badgerdao has disclosed that it has “received reports of unauthorized withdrawals of user funds.” The analytics team Peckshield estimates that over $120 million was siphoned in the Badgerdao breach. Badgerdao Suffers $120 Million Exploit — Engineers Pause Smart Contracts According to the official Badgerdao Twitter account, the team has noticed reports of unauthorized withdrawals from the protocol’s system. “Badger has received reports of unauthorized withdrawals of user funds,” the team....
Bitcoin decentralized finance (DeFi) platform ALEX Protocol has recently suffered an attack, losing $8.3 million in user funds. This represents the second exploit of the Stacks-based project in just over a year following a previous heist by the notorious North Korean Lazarus hackers group from North Korea. Related Reading: $15 Million Crypto Laundering Ring Crushed […]
Bridge exploits continue to prove to be a top concern across DeFi and crypto at large, as bridges time and time again have proven to be a major point of vulnerability. Enter once again another prime example with the latest 9-figure exploit, this time on the multi-chain Nomad Bridge. In the early hours following the exploit, we’re looking at an exploit in the range of $160-190M – let’s take a look at this and more from what we know thus far. Nomad’s Collapse According to Defi Llama, the bridge closed off July with a TVL of right around $190M, and as August went....