Flash Loan Attack

Sonne Finance Suffers $20 Million Hack

Summary # On May 14, 2024, Sonne Finance was exploited on the Optimism chain, which led to a loss of nearly $20 million worth of assets including USDC, WETH and VELO. Sonne Finance is a decentralized liquidity protocol that offers Lending, Borrowing and Earning opportunities on Optimism and Base chains. The root cause of the exploit is a precision loss smart contract vulnerability. Sonne Finance’s smart contracts are a fork of CompoundV2, and precision loss vulnerability is a well-known issue with them. ...

Affine Protocol Exploit: A $88,000 Loss Due to Smart Contract Flaw

Summary # Affine Protocol, a provider of cross-chain investment and savings solutions on the Ethereum Mainnet, suffered a significant exploit on February 1, 2024, resulting in a loss of $88,000. The incident was traced to a smart contract vulnerability involving insufficient user data validation. The attacker exploited a flash loan callback function in the strategy contract, manipulating it to liquidate its position and redirect funds. Affine Protocol deployed enhanced security protocols, including stricter access controls and rigorous validation processes for user inputs and transactions, and developed a remediation plan to compensate affected users. ...

Abracadabra Money Suffers $6.5 Million Loss Due to Smart Contract Exploit

Summary # Abracadabra Money, a prominent leverage and lending platform in the DeFi space, was exploited on January 30, 2024, due to a smart contract vulnerability on the Ethereum Mainnet. This exploit led to the unauthorized borrowing and subsequent theft of assets, totaling over $6.5 million, including 1800 ETH and 2.2 million MIM tokens. The attacker exploited the contract’s inability to accurately track the real amount of debt due to rounding errors. ...

Pine Protocol Suffers $92,000 Security Breach

Summary # Pine Protocol, a decentralized, non-custodial asset-backed lending platform, suffered a security breach on December 21, 2023, due to a vulnerability in its smart contract on the Ethereum Mainnet. This exploit resulted in a loss of approximately 40 ETH ($92,000), exploiting the protocol across multiple transactions. The attack was facilitated by a flaw related to shared pools between two different contracts within the platform. Attackers # The identity of the attacker is unknown. ...

Raft Protocol loses $6,700,000 in Smart Contract Exploit

Summary # On November 10, 2023, Raft Protocol experienced an exploit resulting in a loss of about 1,575 cbETH. The exploiter employed a sophisticated multistep attack strategy focusing on a smart contract’s precision calculation vulnerability. Initially, the attacker obtained cbETH through a flash loan before donating and liquidating the cbETH to the Interest Rate Position Manager. This maneuver manipulated the collateral token’s index rate, allowing the exploiter to systematically increase their position in small increments, exploiting a rounding issue in the mint function. ...

Zunami Protocol lost $2.16 million in a flash loan attack.

Summary # On August 13, 2023, Zunami Protocol, a prominent DeFi platform on Ethereum, was compromised through a sophisticated flash loan attack, resulting in a significant loss of 1,178 ETH, approximately valued at $2.16 million. Central to this exploit was a vulnerability within the platform’s contract that allowed for the manipulation of the UZD token’s balance. By leveraging a flash loan the attacker was able to artificially inflate the value of the UZD token. ...

Rodeo Finance Exploit on Arbitrum Leads to $888,000 Loss

Summary # On July 11, 2023, Rodeo Finance on Arbitrum was breached, losing around 472 ETH ($888,000) due to an attacker exploiting the TWAP Oracle. By manipulating the oracle’s price calculation, through a “sandwich” attack, they inflated asset prices. This allowed them to mislead the protocol, borrow against the inflated prices from the USDC Pool, and conduct swaps to profit from the manipulated price discrepancies, effectively bypassing Rodeo’s security checks. ...

Themis Protocol Suffers $370,000 Loss in Exploit

Summary # On June 27, 2023, Themis Protocol, a decentralized lending and borrowing platform on the Arbitrum One chain, fell victim to a sophisticated exploit involving a flawed price oracle, leading to a loss of approximately $370,000. The attacker manipulated the Balancer LP token price by exchanging tokens within the Balancer pool, thus affecting the oracle’s valuation of the pool’s tokens. By utilizing flash loans and a series of calculated transactions, the exploiter was able to inflate the price of the Balancer LP tokens and borrow assets far exceeding their collateral, eventually laundering a portion of the stolen assets through Tornado Cash. ...

Sturdy Finance Loses $800K to DeFi Exploit

Summary # On June 12, 2023, Sturdy Finance, a DeFi protocol on the Ethereum blockchain known for its lending and borrowing services, was compromised in a security breach. Attackers exploited a vulnerability in the protocol’s price oracle, combined with a read-only reentrancy flaw, orchestrating a theft of approximately $800,000. Attackers # The identity of the hackers who attacked Multichain is unknown. Hacker Ethereum Wallet: 0x1E8419E724d51E87f78E222D935fbbdeb631a08B Losses # 442 ETH (800,000 USD) Timeline # June 12, 2023, 01:06:35 AM UTC: The malicious transaction occurred. ...

0vix Hack: $2 Million Stolen in Exploit

Summary # On April 28, 2023, 0vix, a DeFi protocol, was hacked for $2 million in USDC. The attacker executed a sophisticated exploit that involved flash loans, price manipulation, and a self-executed toxic liquidation spiral. All of this occurred within one transaction composed of 278 events. Attackers # The attackers remain unidentified. The attacker(s) utilized the following Polygon addresses: 0x702ef63881b5241ffb412199547bcd0c6910a970 0x407feaec31c16b19f24a8a8846ab4939ed7d7d57 0x49c6dd832d76fb9dd0dfd3a889775faa51af095c Losses # $2 million in USDC Timeline # April 28, 2023, 10:45:16 AM +UTC Attacker’s transaction April 28, 2023, 11:54 AM +UTC: 0VIX announced a temporary suspension of its POS and zkEVM operations due to an exploit April 29, 2023, 03:14:47 PM +UTC: 0VIX Protocol sent a message to the attacker, saying that if no funds are received by 8:00 a. ...