The Harmony Heist: US $100M Stolen💰

Events Under the Spotlight 🔎

Harmony Protocol’s Horizon bridge hacked, $100M stolen

• The Harmony Protocol bridge suffered a hack that led to a loss of $100M.
• The bridge exploiter stole 11 different ERC-20 tokens and 13,100 Ether from the bridge.
• The stolen funds were transferred to other ERC-20 tokens to two other wallets to swap via UniSwap and other DEXs back to ETH.
• The protocol is suspected to suffer private key compromise.

Convex Finance’s DNS domain was hijacked

• Convex Finance’s DNS domain was hijacked, directing users to approve malicious contracts for some interactions on the site.
• A total of 215 ETH were lost during the event.
• Users were asked to contact the support team for reimbursement.
• The reason is known to be a compromised employee.

Vulnerability spotted in WhaleLoans protocol

• A vulnerability was discovered in the WhaleLoans protocol’s stable pool implementation.
• An attacker took a flash loan to exploit the vulnerability and earned ~12K (5,946 BUSD and 5,964 USDT).
• The problem pertains to be associated with the k-value check.

PandoraChain DAO flash loaned for $128k

• PandoraChain DAO suffered a flash loan attack and was hacked for $128K.
• The hacker manipulated the $PCD price through a flash loan to get a large amount of $PCD locked tokens.
• Then unlocked the $PCD tokens multiple times and swapped them for USDT.

Justcows on BNB Chain fell for a Rug Pull

• Justcows on BNB Chain rugged investors for $5M.
• The project party distributed a large amount of BUSD to tens of thousands of addresses in the form of currency mixing.
• Some of the funds were transferred to HunterSwap, and some entered the exchange.

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