The hacker of Wormhole, one of the largest cross-chain bridges between Solana and other blockchains, has moved stolen funds of $155 million worth of ETH for the first time in months to a decentralized exchange.
Blockchain data by analytic platform CertiK atskleidė that 95,630 ETH was sent to the OpenOcean DEX before being converted into ETH-pegged assets such as Lido Finance’s staked ETH (stETH) and wrapped staked (wstETH).
- The exploiter then naudojamas the wrapped staked Ether (wstETH) as collateral to take a $13 million loan in the stablecoin DAI, in a bid to įsigyti nearly 7,989.5 ETH via KyberNetwor. The trades were repeated multiple times.
- Following the sudden burst of on-chain activity, the Wormhole team offered the hacker a bounty of $10 million once again in an embedded message in a transaction via the Wormhole: Deployer, which skaityti,
“We would like to reiterate our previous offer of a $10 million bounty for the total return of all the stolen funds. You can reach out to us at [apsaugotas el. paštu] or reply on chain.”
- With the renewed activity, a cybersecurity firm, Ancilla, has išduotas a warning that many of the ad entries shown by Google for keywords “Wormhole Bridge” are, in fact, phishing websites.
- The Wormhole išnaudoti was one of the biggest hacks in 2022. The hacker exploited a vulnerability in the validation system of the popular cross-chain protocol, enabling them to fraudulently generate wrapped ETH, which was then used to convert into ETH.
- Across a slew of transactions, the hacker made off with nearly 120,000 Wormhole Ethereum (WeETH) worth over $320 million.
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Source: https://cryptopotato.com/solanas-wormhole-bridge-exploiter-moves-155m-in-eth/