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.
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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
According to an official announcement from DeFi asset management protocol Zapper, its .fi domain was hijacked via social engineering. The current zapper(.fi) page is malicious and should be avoided — users are strongly advised not to click on any related links. Attack method (per SlowMist): Domain Hijacking. Reported loss: $7,900,000.
Primary source
https://x.com/zapper_fi/status/1907089451223781877 ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Zapper
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2025-04-01
- loss_usd
- $7,900,000
- source_id
- sm:zapper::2025-04-01
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