Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.
The DeFi protocol AutoShark Finance on the Binance Smart Chain was attacked by hackers in a series of transactions, and the hackers made a profit of US$2 million (the protocol loss may be even greater). Previously, AutoShark was attacked by a flash loan in May, and the currency price crashed. AutoShark responded that it would issue a new token, JAWS, to compensate damaged users. Since then, AutoShark was attacked by lightning loan again in early October, and hackers made a profit of approximately US$580,000. Attack method (per SlowMist): Flash loan attack. Reported loss: $ 2,000,000.
- chain
- bsc
- protocol
- AutoShark Finance
- bug_class
- flashloan
- date_occurred
- 2021-10-29
- loss_usd
- $2,000,000
- source_id
- sm:autoshark-finance::2021-10-29