$731,000 stolen in SuperRare hack
A hacker stole RARE tokens priced at around $731,000 after exploiting a vulnerability in a staking contract for the SuperRare NFT platform. The attacker funded the exploiter wallet around six months ago with assets transferred via the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer.
Arcadia Finance exploited for $3.5 million
The Arcadia Finance defi margin protocol was exploited for $3.5 million after an attacker found a vulnerability in a project smart contract. The attacker quickly swapped the stolen tokens and bridged them from Base to the Ethereum mainnet. The attacker stole the funds in two separate transactions that were more than four hours apart.
Arcadia is backed by Coinbase Ventures. The project acknowledged the hack, encouraging users to revoke permissions.
Kinto token crashes; community claims rug pull, Kinto claims hack
The price of Kinto's $K token suddenly crashed 90%, sparking accusations of a rug pull. A tranche of investor tokens had just been unlocked recently, leading some to speculate that investors dumped their tokens on retail buyers.
However, Kinto blamed the token crash on the exploit that was recently disclosed by VennBuild, claiming on Twitter that "we got hacked by a state actor". Venn seemed to corroborate Kinto's explanation that the crash was related to the exploit, tweeting that although they had tried to warn all vulnerable projects before publicly disclosing the bug, "Sadly the Kinto token was not found despite being vulnerable, and exploited without time to mitigate."
Kinto has announced a plan to try to fundraise to cover a $1.4 million loss in liquidity, then create a new $K token based on a snapshot of previous token holdings.
Security researchers disclose exploit that put over $10 million across multiple protocols at risk
On July 9, security researchers at VennBuild and other firms disclosed a "critical backdoor" affecting thousands of smart contracts, which one of the researchers said left "over $10,000,000 at risk for months". The researchers suggested that the backdoor was likely created by Lazarus, a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group.
According to the researchers, they found thousands of contracts affected by the exploit, and worked with multiple protocols to upgrade contracts or withdraw vulnerable funds. The researchers theorized that the attackers were "likely a sophisticated group waiting for a bigger target, not small wins."
GMX exchange hacked for $42 million
The decentralized perpetual exchange GMX has been exploited for $42 million. The exploit involved a vulnerability in one version of the exchange's price calculation smart contract. GMX paused some trading while they investigated the hack, and placed other temporary restrictions on the platform.
GMX offered a 10% "bug bounty" to the hacker if they returned the funds. The attacker later returned $40.5 million in stolen assets; unusually, this is more than the 90% return requested by GMX.
Meta Pool exploited
An attacker exploited a vulnerability in the staking contract for Meta Pool, which is a liquid staking project. This allowed them to mint 9,700 mpETH, the project's liquid staking token, which is notionally worth $27 million. However, very low liquidity for the token meant that the attacker was only able to swap 10 ETH (~$25,000) of tokens.
Meta Pool acknowledged the theft in a post shortly after the exploit was noticed by a blockchain security firm, and announced that the team had paused the project's smart contract.
Cork Protocol exploited for $12 million
Cork Protocol, a defi project aimed at "tokenizing the risk of depeg events for stablecoins and liquid (re)staking tokens", suffered a $12 million loss after an attacker exploited a bug in how the project's smart contract calculated exchange rates. The attacker stole around 3,762 wrapped staked ETH (wstETH), which they exchanged for ETH. The project announced that they were investigating the theft and had paused markets.
Cork had been audited in whole or in part by four different security firms. The project's funders include Andreessen Horowitz, OrangeDAO, and Steakhouse Financial, and Cork is a part of Andreessen Horowitz's Crypto Startup Accelerator.
Term Finance loses $1.65 million due to misconfiguration, recovers $1 million
The Ethereum-based lending project Term Finance lost $1.6 million when an oracle misconfiguration resulted in unintended liquidations. The team later announced that they had "successfully negotiated [the] return" of 333 ETH (~$600,000) that had been lost, and that another roughly 223 ETH (~$400,000) had been "captured internally", leaving the final loss at around 362 ETH (~$650,000).
$5 million in tokens stolen from ZKsync
An attacker compromised an admin account belonging to the ZKsync Ethereum layer-2 project, which is built by Matter Labs. By doing so, they were able to steal approximately $5 million worth of the ZK token, which the project said were "the remaining unclaimed tokens from the ZKsync airdrop".
ZK Sync offered a 10% "bug bounty" to the thief, who accepted and returned 90% of the stolen funds.
KiloEx exploited for $7.5 million
KiloEx, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange, was exploited for $7.5 million. An attacker executed an oracle manipulation attack on KiloEx's pricing smart contracts to steal funds across the Base Ethereum layer-2 chain, BNB Chain, and Taiko.
KiloEx halted trading on the platform while investigating the exploit, and contacted the hacker to try to negotiate a 90% return of funds.
KiloEx later announced that the recovery had been successful, and that they would pay out the 10% "bounty".