Deus Finance

Exploit

Estimated loss

$13.40M

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/2022-04/deus_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

Decentralized finance (DeFi) application Deus Finance was exploited for the second time in two months, with the attacker gaining more than $13.4 million of cryptocurrency in early Asian hours today, security researchers at PeckShield said in a tweet. The exploit occurred on the Fantom Network. Reported loss: $13,400,000.

Primary source

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/04/28/how-deus-finance-was-exploited-for-134m-on-fantom/ ↗

Sourced from

chainsec

Technical record