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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...