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Beanstalk Farms $76 Million Exploit and its Path Forward

20 Apr 2022 2 minute read 0 comments kev_nag

Introduction On April 18, 2022, Beanstalk Farms, a credit-based stablecoin protocol, reported suffering an exploit where the platform had $76 Million stolen from it. While not of the magnitude of some of the exploits we have seen, nonetheless, $76 Mi...

~$45m Flash loan attack on PancakeBunny

20 May 2021 1 minute read 2 comments EatTheBugs

You'd think that DEX's like PancakeSwap would recognize that to stop a flash loan you need to have solid, accurate Oracles to get accurate prices for liquidity providers (BNB-BUSDT / BNB-BUNNY in this case) many of them have happened in our space sin...

Intel in Denial of the Latest SGX Secure Enclave Vulnerability

19 Nov 2020 1 minute read 8 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Another vulnerability and exploit named VoltPillager has been published for Intel Corporation's SGX security technology.  The attack itself is simply a hardware version of a previously discovered PlunderVolt software vulnerability where voltage to t...

DeFi Protocol Value Suffers $6M Flash Loan Attack

16 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments author_nan

DeFi protocol Value announced on Nov. 14 that it had experienced a flash loan attack that resulted in the loss of $6 million. The attacker specifically targeted Value Protocols’ MultiStables Vault, which led to $6 million in user deposits being stol...

Oups, i did it again! Third and fourth hack on Balancer pools

30 Jun 2020 3 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78

Yesterday, June 29th, two of the multi-token pools on DeFi platform Balancer were drained of ~$450,000. The attacker conducted the attack in two separate flashloan transactions by draining one liquidity pool until close to zero. The firm’s co-founder...

Memory PIT exploit for Nintendo DSi

17 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments cargabsj175

When it seemed that the Nintendo DS was no longer talking about since its last update in 2012, there were only two ways to hack it and it was with an application from the store (Flipnote Studio) or hardmodding (modifying the hardware). Now things are...

NEW EXPLOIT: bitcoin wallet risk and home banking access on android devices

5 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.

An old exploit for Android devices, called StrandHogg, emerged as early as 2015, has been refined and is currently in circulation in a new version, potentially lethal; this is reported by Promon, a well-known security company, which specified that th...