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Incident · SLOWMIST

Iron Finance

Affected by Cloud Service Upgrade
Estimated loss
$170.0K
VERDICT —UNRATED
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▰ 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.

Forensic narrative

Recently, Iron Finance, a stablecoin mortgage platform based on Binance Chain, was attacked. Two vFarm liquidity pools (50% IRON—50% SIL pool; 50% IRON—50% BUSD pool) lost a total of 170,000 US dollars. Later, the official publication of the incident stated that: 1. The cause of the attack was due to the upgrade of the cloud service (FaaS) and the change in the reward rate integer, but the official team was not aware of the problem. Later, an attacker made a profit of 170,000 U.S. dollars by selling all the local token SIL rewards. 2. The Iron Finance smart contract has no loopholes. 3. vFarms will be restarted on March 18th, and SIL tokens will be restarted to sIRON. 4. Users should not sell or exchange IRON tokens for the time being. When the new pool is restarted, the full amount of BUSD can be redeemed. The Iron Finance agreement was launched on the BSC in early March. The IRON stablecoin is pegged to the U.S. dollar, partly backed by collateral such as BUSD and USDT, and partly backed by the SIL algorithm. Attack method (per SlowMist): Affected by Cloud Service Upgrade. Reported loss: $ 170,000.

Primary source
https://ironfinance.medium.com/iron-finance-vfarms-incident-post-mortem-16-march-2021-114e58d1eaac
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
bsc
protocol
Iron Finance
bug_class
unknown
date_occurred
2021-03-16
loss_usd
$170,000
source_id
sm:iron-finance::2021-03-16
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