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Wormhole Contract Vulnerability

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Incident Overview

Attackers exploited a signature verification vulnerability in the Wormhole network to mint 120k Ether on Solana, worth over $326 million. The hack was made possible by a series of signature verification authorizations, where the developers used a deprecated function to enable unverified forged signature passes.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://wormholecrypto.medium.com/wormhole-incident-report-02-02-22-ad9b8f21eec6 (opens in a new tab)

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