Crypto Post-Mortem: Here’s How Pump.Fun Was Exploited For $2 Million
Solana-based platform Pump.fun suffered an exploit that left the crypto community with many questions. The attack stole millions of dollars in users’ funds, but the reasons behind it and the exact amount of the loot were unclear. Amid the uncertainty, some claimed that a crypto Robinhood had emerged. Related Reading: Bitcoin Still Has “A Lot Of Room To Run Before Reversal,” Says Top Analyst $80 Million Taken In Crypto Heist? On Thursday, the platform Pump.fun announced its bounding curve contracts had been compromised. In the post, the team alerted users that all trading was temporarily....
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Four malicious hackers and one white-hat have gone to town on ForceDAO during its launch day. Fledgling decentralized finance protocol ForceDAO has had a rough start, with several incursions from hackers taking place just hours after it launched.The Ethereum-based yield aggregator had only just launched its airdrop campaign on April 3 when four malicious “black-hat” hackers managed to drain a total of 183 ETH worth approximately $367,000 at the time. One friendly "white-hat" hacker alsassisted the team by alerting them to prevent further losses.The team has released a post-mortem of the....
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Cream Finance has identified the AMP integration error that caused a nearly $19 million loss for the protocol and aims to pay users back. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Cream Finance will pay back its users following a $18.8 million flash loan hack that occurred on Aug. 30.Cream has published a post-mortem to the AMP flash loan exploit, promising to replace the stolen Ether (ETH) and Amp (AMP) tokens by allocating 20% of all protocol fees until the debt is paid entirely. Cream will also post collateral with relevant parties at AMP and its creators, Flexa digital payments network, to....