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SpankChain Reentrancy Attack

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Incident Overview

The attacker created a malicious contract masquerading as an ERC20 token, and the "transfer" function re-invokes the payment channel contract repeatedly, each time exhausting some ETH.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttp://dy.163.com/v2/article/detail/DTN9R2MA0519U3I5.html (opens in a new tab)

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