In a matter of 24 hours, a DeFi platform lost millions of dollars in a hack, developers of a play-to-earn (P2E) GameFi project apparently rug-pulled their investors, and a Solana (SOL)-powered exchange mistakenly shut itself down - all reminding us of risks in the crypto space.
According to blockchain security firm PeckShield, DeFi lending protocol Cream Finance was exploited by hackers on Tuesday thanks to a “bug introduced by [the] AMP” token.
“The hacker makes a flash loan of [ETH 500 (USD 79,000)] and deposits the funds as collateral. Then the hacker borrows [$AMP 19m] and makes use of the reentrancy bug to re-borrow [ETH 355] inside $AMP token transfer. Then the hacker self-liquidates the borrow,” PeckShield added.
The security firm noted that the hacker repeated this process a total of 17 times to gain ETH 5,980 (USD 9.5m).
Cream Finance confirmed the hack, claiming that they have stopped the attack by “pausing supply and borrow on AMP.”
Meanwhile, GameFi (P2E...
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