Verified blockchain security incidents with original evidence and historical event dates.
Historical events use their original event dates. Latest event dates first. Severity follows existing archive classifications.
CredixFinance (CREDIX) on ETH is suspected of a rug pull, with the deployer removing substantial liquidity, causing a 100% price decline.
Dor (DOR) on BSC is suspected of a rug pull, with the deployer removing substantial liquidity, causing a 100% price decline.
Loopring's Twitter account has been hacked; please do not click on the phishing link.
Crypto quantization company Kronos Research tweeted that they experienced unauthorized access of some of their API keys.
About $9m from the dYdX v3 insurance fund were used to fill gaps on liquidations processed in the YFI market, and the CEO said this was pretty clearly a targeted attack against dYdX, including market manipulation of the entire $YFI market.
DEX SpookySwap on Fantom tweeted that the team is investigating a frontend vulnerability on their domain. Please do not execute any transactions on the DEX. On November 19, Spooky updated that a 3rd party JavaScript plugin enabled code injection from npm packages. This enabled replacing the spooky router contract on the Spooky Fi frontend with a malicious contract which sent funds that users attempted to swap to the exploiter.
Trader Joe, the largest native DEX on Avalanche, tweeted that the team's preliminary analysis identified a potential exploit in a 3rd party analytics plugin hacked JavaScript code used by the frontend.
Lendora Protocol on Scroll is suspected of an exit scam. The website is now offline and the contracts were paused.
PIPI (PIPI) on BSC is suspected of a rug pull, with the deployer removing substantial liquidity, causing a 99.92% price decline.
BABYFIDO (BABYFIDO) on ETH is suspected of a rug pull, with the deployer removing substantial liquidity, causing a 100% price decline.
Builders NFT (BuiLDerS) on BSC is suspected of a rug pull, with the deployer removing substantial liquidity, causing a 100% price decline.
Exzo Network tweeted that a recent security breach targeted Exzo ($XZO), resulting from a compromised owner/admin account. The malicious group utilized the compromised admin wallet to transfer the 'ownership' role of Exzo ($XZO) to their wallet, enabling them to mint a substantial amount of $XZO and drain 169 ETH from the XZO/ETH liquidity pool on Uniswap. The attackers also transferred a total of 69 ETH and the remaining XZO in the admin wallet to their own wallet(s).
The stablecoin protocol Raft protocol on Ethereum was attacked and lost about $3.3 million in ETH.
The multisignature wallet addresses of the DAO project Samudai and the wallet of its founder appear to have been compromised, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.25 million.
On November 10, the Poloniex exchange was hacked. According to the analysis of the SlowMist, the Poloniex hack currently affects about $130M.
God Of Wealth (GOW39) is suspected of a rug pull, with the deployer removing substantial liquidity, causing a 100% price decline.
On November 8, 2023, CoinSpot was exploited across two of its hot wallets, resulting in a loss of over 1,283 ETH, worth approximately $2.472 million.
Mirage Finance has been exploited for ~$12K, $MRG has dropped 54%.
The MEV Bot (0x05f016765c6c601fd05a10dba1abe21a04f924a5) was exploited and lost about 1k ETH! The core reason is that the 0xf6ebebbb function used to trigger arbitrage in the contract lacks authentication. The attacker calls this function to exchange the tokens in the contract into the pool on curve, and then uses funds of the flash loan to reverse exchange and obtain profit.
On November 7, TheStandard.io was exploited for ~$290k. The key vulnerability here was the low liquidity in the PAXG pool, which the attacker exploited to manipulate the market. On November 9, 243k $EUROs has been returned to the protocol from the attacker which will be burned in due process.