White hat potentially saves SushiSwap $350M by finding ‘obvious’ exploit
The security researcher found a flaw in a dutch auction smart contract that could have resulted in the loss of 109,000 ETH. The SushiSwap decentralized exchange has narrowly avoided becoming the latest DeFi hack victim thanks to assistance from a white hat hacker.A security researcher from venture capital firm Paradigm known on Twitter as “samczsun” has managed to save SushiSwap and its MISO platform from a potential loss of as much as 109,000 ETH.In a blog post published on Aug. 17, the programmer described how he began examining the smart contract code for the BitDAO token sale at....
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White hat hacker Samczsun from investment firm Paradigm reported what could be one of the biggest rescues ever on the SushiSwap protocol, the Ethereum ecosystem, and maybe the entire internet. Just pulled off maybe the biggest whitehat rescue ever. Story time soon 🔥 — samczsun (@samczsun) August 17, 2021 Samczun claimed in a post that he found and help patch a vulnerability that was threatening over $350 million or 109,000 ETH from a Sushiswap based contract from its MISO platform. The white hacker reviewed the contract after he found there was a new auction taking place on the....
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