The hacker used a flash loan to inflate prices on Makina’s USD-USDC liquidity pool, and then traded to make over $4 million.

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 ...

Blockchain security firm CertiK flagged a suspected exploit at decentralized finance protocol Makina Finance after roughly $5 ...

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.

Makina Finance suffers a $4.13 million exploit after its DUSD/USDC Curve pool is drained through an oracle manipulation ...

The cross-chain lending protocol expects to fully clear its bad debt within 90 days. Cross-chain lending blockchain Radiant Capital has commenced debt repayments after a flash loan exploit drained the ...

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 ...

Shiba Inu's layer 2 Shibarium’s bridge was hit by what developers are calling a carefully planned exploit involving a flash loan and validator takeover. “Earlier today, a sophisticated (probably ...

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 ...

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, ...