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Onyx hacked for $3.8 million via the same exploit used against them less than a year ago

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The Onyx protocol was hacked for a second time by attackers taking advantage of known bugs in forks of the Compound Finance project. Projects regularly fail to patch these bugs, despite many instances of multi-million dollar hacks affecting Compound forks in the past.

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.

Posted on:2024-09-28 16:10:07

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