Aave’s Earning Farm protocol targeted by reentrancy attack — PeckShield
According to the blockchain security firm, Aave protocol's Earning Farm was compromised by a reentrancy attack on Aug. 9.
According to the blockchain security firm, Aave protocol's Earning Farm was compromised by a reentrancy attack on Aug. 9.
The leveraged yield aggregator confirmed on Aug. 7 that it was hacked and said it’s willing to discuss a bounty with the exploiters.
Hackers attempted to infiltrate CoinsPaid infrastructure directly starting in March 2023, but switched their approach to targeting individuals through fake high-salary job offers.
Curve Finance is extending a $1.85 million bug bounty offer to anyone who can identify the exploiter of its stable pools.
The attacker started returning stolen funds after accepting nearly $7 million in bug bounty. Funds had been returned to Alchemix and JPEGd.
Curve Finance pools were targeted by hackers in a reentrancy attack on July 30, sending shockwaves across the DeFi ecosystem. Cointelegraph compiled the week's events.
Most DeFi tokens traded in the red on weekly charts due to the chaos caused by the Curve Finance exploit.
The exploit on July 30 resulted in the theft of roughly $70 million in cryptocurrencies, bringing the bounty close to $7 million.
The decentralized stablecoin is facing its first stress test since it was released in May, putting its PegKeeper algorithm to work.
The identity of the hacker or hackers behind an exploit that removed more than 100,000 Bitcoin from Bitfinex in 2016 had only been the subject of speculation until Aug. 3.