The attack marks the third time Platypus has been exploited in 2023, with one incident taking $8.5 million in February and another taking $157,000 in July. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol ...

QuickSwap, a decentralized-finance (DeFi) platform that's based on the Polygon blockchain, closed its lending services for users following a flash-loan exploit for over $220,000 worth of tokens on ...

Venus Protocol suffers a $3.7M flash loan attack on BNB Chain, manipulating THE token collateral and borrowing limits.

Decentralized finance protocol Bunni suffered an $8.4 million exploit on September 2, after a sophisticated attacker leveraged a flash loan to manipulate liquidity pools on both Ethereum and Unichain.

In July 2024, Dough Finance, a Florida-based DeFi platform promising leveraged “looping” returns, fell prey to a flash-loan exploit that drained $2.5 million from user accounts. The exploit not only ...

Shiba Inu’s layer-2 network, Shibarium, was hit by a coordinated exploit that saw an attacker use a flash loan to gain control over a validator, drain assets from its bridge and trigger a temporary ...

Moonwell, a multi-chain lending protocol, was exploited through flawed oracles and pricing data. The platform lost around $1M just a day after the larger Balancer hack. Moonwell, the multi-chain ...

Technical weaknesses in smart contracts, such as reentrancy and flash loan exploits, have led to substantial financial losses in the crypto space. Targeted security solutions, like SphereX and GoPlus, ...

A flash loan is a type of uncollateralized lending that is popular across a number of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols based on the Ethereum network. These types of loans have made headlines ...