{"id":238497,"date":"2024-01-30T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=238497"},"modified":"2024-01-30T23:03:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:33:38","slug":"lending-protocol-abracadabra-hit-by-6-5m-exploit-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/lending-protocol-abracadabra-hit-by-6-5m-exploit-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lending Protocol Abracadabra Hit By $6.5M Exploit &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The MIM stablecoin trades at a 6% discount as the team attempts to contact the hacker via onchain message.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>DeFi lending protocol <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/abracadabra-mim-stablecoin-makerdao\">Abracadabra<\/a> has been exploited to the tune of $6.5M.<\/p>\n<p>According to the team, the attacker <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIM_Spell\/status\/1752368458715607261\">targeted<\/a> specific V3 and V4 cauldrons on Ethereum to take out unauthorized MIM loans. The borrowed MIM was then swapped for ETH, according to security firm Peckshield, which first <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peckshield\/status\/1752279373779194011\">flagged<\/a> the exploit.<\/p>\n<p>Borrowing limits on the affected cauldrons have been set to zero to prevent further losses. The Abracadabra team has sent an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/tx\/0xa1f8e3c30917f33956ef0a96417987a07a70509a2e48b6426b65906462faad6b\">onchain message<\/a> to the exploiter\u2019s address in the hope of recovering the stolen assets in exchange for a bounty.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">Message sent to the exploiter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Abracadabra is a collateralized debt protocol that allows users to borrow MIM, its native stablecoin, against various crypto assets. Its cauldrons operate similarly to Maker\u2019s vaults.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/magic-internet-money\" class=\"no-underline\"><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MIM Price chart\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"554.6666666666666\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mx-auto\" id='b' style='filter: url(%23b)' src=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F6oftkxoa%2Fproduction%2F211675f4e241a6cc22287ffff8582f6b0d89c77f-810x468.jpg&amp;w=828&amp;q=100\" \/><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">MIM Price<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With MIM trading well under its $1 peg, the team has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIM_Spell\/status\/1752286636740579440\">committed<\/a> to deploying the protocol\u2019s treasury to buy and burn the stablecoin in a bid to restore its peg. MIM has a market capitalization of around $55M.<\/p>\n<p>Abracadabra is working with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis to track the flow of the stolen assets.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIM stablecoin trades at a 6% discount as the team attempts to contact the hacker via onchain message. DeFi lending protocol Abracadabra has been exploited to the tune of $6.5M. According to the team, the attacker targeted specific V3 and V4 cauldrons on Ethereum to take out unauthorized MIM loans. The borrowed MIM was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-238497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238500,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238497\/revisions\/238500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}