Nefarious Activist Attacks Curve Finance, Steals $570k

Nefarious Activist Attacks Curve Finance, Steals $570k

Recent news has reported another theft incident in the digital currency sector; it occurred in an exchange liquidity pool, Curve Finance. The attackers accomplished their objective by hijacking the DNS of the exchange liquidity pool. These bad actors used a program that created access to the protocol’s home page. Once the malicious contract was deployed […]


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