VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
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/2022-12/Lodestar_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
Arbitrum-based lending protocol Lodestar Finance was exploited in a flash loan attack on Dec. 10. According to Lodestar, the attacker manipulated the price of PlutusDAO’s plvGLP token before borrowing all platform liquidity using the inflated token. Reported loss: $5,800,000.
Sourced from
chainsec
Technical record
- chain
- arbitrum
- protocol
- Lodestar Finance
- bug_class
- flashloan
- date_occurred
- 2022-12-11
- loss_usd
- $5,800,000
- source_id
- cs:lodestar-finance::2022-12-11
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