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Incident · SLOWMIST

Aerodrome

Domain Hijacking
Estimated loss
$700.0K
VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE
Root cause is infrastructure (DNS / cloud / database / third-party API) compromise, not on-chain contract logic. Pre-deployment source review would not surface this; coverage lives in cloud-security + supply-chain audit, separate discipline.
▰ METHOD
INFRASTRUCTURE
INFRASTRUCTURE
Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

Forensic narrative

Aerodrome, a DEX built on Base, posted on X that the centralized domains of Velodrome and Aerodrome were hijacked on November 21 due to an internal security vulnerability at NameSilo, resulting in redirection to malicious content. With the rapid response from security partners including Blockaid, Groom Lake, Security Alliance, and FTI Consulting, MetaMask and Coinbase Wallet displayed warnings within two minutes, and the issue was fully mitigated within four hours. The incident resulted in approximately $700,000 in losses. Attack method (per SlowMist): Domain Hijacking. Reported loss: $ 700,000.

Primary source
https://x.com/AerodromeFi/status/1992693120614727758
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
base
protocol
Aerodrome
bug_class
infrastructure
date_occurred
2025-11-21
loss_usd
$700,000
source_id
sm:aerodrome::2025-11-21
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