VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
▰ METHOD
Undisclosed
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.
▰ PROOF OF CONCEPT
DEFIHACKLABS
src/test/2022-07/Audius_exp.sol
view forked test on github ↗Reproducible Foundry test fork from SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs. Clone the repo, run forge test against the file path above, and replay the exploit against a mainnet fork at the historical block. Use for reproduction only — not for live targets.
Forensic narrative
Proposals in crypto help communities make consensus-based decisions. However, for decentralized music platform Audius, the passing of a malicious governance proposal resulted in the transfer of tokens worth $6.1 million, with the hacker making away with $1 million. Reported loss: $6,100,000.
Primary source
https://cointelegraph.com/news/hacker-drains-1-08m-from-audius-following-passing-of-malicious-proposal ↗Sourced from
chainsec
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Audius
- bug_class
- unknown
- date_occurred
- 2022-07-24
- loss_usd
- $6,100,000
- source_id
- cs:audius::2022-07-24
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