Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.
Aperture Finance posted on X stating that it has detected an exploit affecting Aperture V3/V4 contracts. To prevent new approvals, core functionalities have been suspended in the front-end application, and the team is working with security partners to investigate the root cause of the incident. Previously, Aperture Finance suffered an attack with losses totaling approximately $3.67 million. On February 5, according to monitoring by PeckShield, a labeled attacker address related to Aperture Finance has deposited 1,242.7 ETH (approximately $2.4 million) into the privacy protocol Tornado Cash. Attack method (per SlowMist): Contract Vulnerability. Reported loss: $ 3,670,000.
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- protocol
- Aperture Finance
- bug_class
- logic
- date_occurred
- 2026-01-26
- loss_usd
- $3,670,000
- source_id
- sm:aperture-finance::2026-01-26