Pike Finance has been hacked for the second time in 4 days, with losses throughout the 2 incidents totaling roughly $1.9 million.
In response to the primary hack, on April 26, the workforce instantly paused the protocol. Nonetheless, this opened up a brand new vulnerability that was exploited between 21:45 and 22:20 (UTC) on April 30.
Crypto safety agency Ancilia rapidly identified three malicious transactions on the Optimism, Arbitrum, and Ethereum networks. Ancilia states the attacker was capable of ‘improve’ and take management of the Pike Finance contracts, which allowed them to withdraw the funds held inside.
The stolen property had been swapped to ETH and consolidated within the attacker’s Ethereum address earlier than being deposited into privateness protocol Railgun.
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The hack was acknowledged by the Pike workforce on X (previously Twitter). The publish put the losses at roughly 64k OP ($150,000), 100k ARB ($105,000), and 480 ETH ($1.4 million) and admitted that the hack was associated to the earlier incident.
The final time Pike Finance was hacked (three days in the past), it suffered losses of round $300,000 value of the USDC stablecoin. The ensuing funds had been swapped for ETH and transferred to the crypto-mixing service Twister Money.
In keeping with the sooner incident’s post-mortem report, the protocol was paused to stop any additional losses whereas the incident was investigated. The report additionally admits that the vulnerability had been reported by auditors OtterSec, however that the Pike workforce “was unable to handle the recognized vulnerability in a well timed method.”
Nonetheless, as described in right now’s response to the second hack, pausing the contracts inadvertently launched “an extra dependency throughout the good contract code.” This led to a “misalignment in storage mapping” which the attacker may benefit from, reinitializing the contract and assuming full management.
Pike Finance has supplied a 20% bounty for the return of the funds and has promised to supply a “plan to make customers complete.”
The neighborhood’s opinions on this response could be seen within the Pike Finance Discord.
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After being hit twice in a row, customers are understandably upset, and some have suggested that Pike Finance refund pre-sale investments.
This in itself has, predictably, opened up one other potential assault vector as rip-off replies (impersonating the Pike Finance account) promise a refund to victims as a part of a typical phishing method.
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