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
Celer said that cBridge's front-end interface suffered from DNS cache poisoning attacks. This attack targeted third-party DNS providers. Celer's own contract was not affected, and users who suffered losses in this incident, Celer, will be fully compensated. Attack method (per SlowMist): BGP Hijacking. Reported loss: 128.4 ETH.
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Celer
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2022-08-18
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:celer::2022-08-18
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