Web3 is Going Just Great

The token followed the typical pattern of quickly pumping, then crashing spectacularly, losing around 90% of its "value". This is often an indicator of a pump-and-dump scheme by insiders, but Welch vehemently denied such wrongdoing, blaming the crash on "snipers".

"I really lost $43k apeing in 'hawk tuah' coin," wrote one buyer on Twitter. Other Twitter users marveled at a wallet that swapped $1.4 million worth of MOODENG (a memecoin based on the tiny hippo of the same name) only to lose it all on the $HAWK token.

Malicious versions of the library allowed exploiters to steal private keys and drain funds from dApps like various Solana bots.

Around $184,000 was stolen as a result of the compromise. Although it was caught fairly quickly, and the malicious code was removed from package managers, developers will need to update projects that used the malicious version of the library, and refresh any potentially exposed secrets.

Although the $450,000 theft is relatively small compared to some other crypto hacks, it represented around 6% of the total value locked on Clipper. Clipper stated they were working to trace and attempt to recover funds, and asked the hacker to contact them to potentially negotiate a return of some funds.

DEXX did not disclose how much was taken in the breach, but hundreds of victims have reported around $21 million in combined losses so far.

The creator of the platform stated that they had filed a police report with Singaporean authorities. They also attempted to contact the hacker via on-chain message to negotiate the return of funds, but have not received a response.

DeltaPrime paused the protocol on both Arbitrum and Avalanche, stopping the attacker from being able to steal more funds than they already had.

DeltaPrime was hacked previously on September 16, losing $6 million after a leaked private key enabled an attacker to mint a huge number of the platform's stablecoin deposit receipts.

Short of finding a vulnerability in Renzo, the trader's only real choice is to plead with Renzo to change their smart contract in such a way as to release the funds. While this is technically possible, Renzo has told the trader they could not grant his request due to "regulatory limitations".

The platform sent a message to the exploiter attempting to negotiate a return of some of the funds.

Other crypto platforms affected included TEN Finance and Movement. Because the animations library is widely used, other non-crypto-related websites also showed the prompt.

Shortly after the theft, M2 acknowledged the hack and announced that "the situation has been fully resolved". This apparently involved M2 restoring customer funds from their own assets, rather than recovering the stolen assets.

In the process of selling off tokens, an arbitrage bot was able to take advantage of the price difference by selling the rapidly crashing SUN token into a second liquidity pool that apparently went unnoticed by the hacker, and the bot operator also profited around $560,000.

The government has not made any statements regarding the movement of assets.

The following day, $19.3 million in tokens were returned to the original wallet.

As the token price stuttered along with these revelations, insiders apparently decided to quit while they were ahead, and cashed out in a quick and coordinated sale.

Both studios had several games in progress, and two of Phoenix Labs' games were explicitly designed for younger players. Developers reportedly voiced discomfort with incorporating blockchains into the games, selling digital items to children.

Later, Forte pulled the plug on several in-development games at both studios. Then, Forte shut down Rumble in 2024, laying off all employees. Forte also laid off over 100 people from Phoenix Labs that year.

Various security researchers have observed that the attack appears to be linked to a slew of social engineering attacks perpetrated by cybercriminals out of North Korea.

This is the second Radiant Capital exploit this year, after a $4.5 million theft in January that was enabled by an unaddressed vulnerability in the underlying Compound Finance code.

Kwon urged the Cosmos governance team to perform a full audit of the code written by these developers, and develop more protocols to prevent issues like this going forward. He also called for the governance team to blacklist Zaki Manian.

The attacker stole around $1.1 million of the cartoon frog-themed PEPE tokens, and another roughly $50,000 of the also cartoon frog-themed APU token.

After the incident, some questioned why the tokens had been sent to an investor without a vesting contract, given they were supposed to be locked for a period of time to prevent sale.

The victim wallet sent a message to the thief, offering "a peaceful resolution to this situation" in which the thief could keep 20% of the total amount taken (around $6.5 million).

A security firm working with Bedrock had tried to warn Bedrock of the vulnerability several hours before the attack, but the team was asleep. The vulnerable contracts had been deployed a day and a half prior to the attack, and had not been audited.

Fortunately for Bedrock, security groups were able to pause third-party projects surrounding Bedrock, which helped to limit the losses — which ultimately could have been as high as the entire value of funds on the protocol.

Onyx apparently didn't learn their lesson the first time around, when they were exploited for $2 million in November 2023 by an attacker taking advantage of a known vulnerability affecting empty markets on the protocol. This same bug seems to have contributed to this exploit, although Onyx has claimed the hack was due to a separate vulnerability in an NFT liquidation contract.

Truflation is a blockchain-based project that provides economic data including inflation rates and asset valuations. The platform has been backed by Coinbase Ventures, Chainlink, and others.

This latest hack is only the latest in a slew of Twitter account compromises "announcing" a scam token. Over a year, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati had her account hacked to promote an "$OPENAI" token. Three months ago, accounts belonging to chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and researcher Jason Wei were hacked and used to post the same scam as today.

Shortly after the attack, Shezmu offered a 10% "bounty" for the return of the funds. The attacker responded that they would only consider a 20% bounty. Shezmu agreed to the terms, and announced to their followers that they had achieved a recovery from the "white hat" hacker.

Some accused the exchange of trying to cover up the theft by announcing "temporary wallet maintenance" without disclosing that a theft had occurred. The team later announced that "there has been minor asset loss", and stated that the lost funds would be restored out of the company's capital.

Around $10 million of the stolen assets were frozen during recovery efforts after the theft.