VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE
Root cause is phishing — victims signed malicious transactions or approvals off-protocol. Contract logic was not the failure surface; user-side wallet hygiene was. Pre-deployment audit cannot catch this class.
▰ METHOD
PHISHING
PHISHING
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
The X account of Ryan Zarick, co-founder and CTO of LayerZero Labs, was briefly compromised and used to post a fraudulent airdrop claim along with a phishing link. Attack method (per SlowMist): Account Compromise. Reported loss: -.
Primary source
https://www.odaily.news/newsflash/412695 ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Ryan Zarick
- bug_class
- phishing
- date_occurred
- 2025-01-12
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:ryan-zarick::2025-01-12
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