{"id":183977,"date":"2023-11-24T15:38:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T15:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=183977"},"modified":"2023-11-24T15:38:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T15:38:55","slug":"kyberswap-hacker-offers-4-6m-bounty-for-return-of-46m-loot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/crypto\/kyberswap-hacker-offers-4-6m-bounty-for-return-of-46m-loot\/","title":{"rendered":"KyberSwap hacker offers $4.6M bounty for return of $46M loot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decentralized exchange KyberSwap has offered a 10% bounty reward to the hacker who stole $46 million on Nov. 22 and left a note of negotiation. The exchange wants 90% of the loot returned by 6 am UTC on Nov. 25.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 23, KyberSwap alerted users that its liquidity solution, KyberSwap Elastic, was compromised and advised them to withdraw funds. In the meantime, on Nov. 22, the hacker made away with roughly $20 million in Wrapped Ether (wETH), $7 million in wrapped Lido-staked Ether (wstETH) and $4 million in Arbitrum (ARB) tokens. The hacker then siphoned the loot across multiple chains, including Arbitrum, Optimism, Ethereum, Polygon and Base.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2023-11\/2b9fa897-ed75-4b30-9f00-ee008c04af9f.png\"><\/p>\n<p>After hiding the stolen funds, the hacker wrote an on-chain message directed to KyberSwap developers, employees, decentralized autonomous organization members and liquidity providers, stating, \u201cNegotiations will start in a few hours when I am fully rested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2023-11\/0c015c82-2b55-4393-ac43-ec61e653701f.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Following a day\u2019s silence from both ends, KyberSwap responded to the hacker requesting the return of 90% of the stolen funds. The team acknowledged the skills of the hacker and laid down an offer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOn the table is a bounty equivalent to 10% of users\u2019 funds taken from them by your hack, for the safe return of all of the users\u2019 funds. But we both know how this works, so lets cut to the chase so you and these users can all get on with life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the hacker fails to pay back or respond to KyberSwap by 6 am UTC, Nov. 25, \u201cyou stay on the run,\u201d said KyberSwap. The team is open to further discussion with the hacker via email.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>KyberSwap announces potential vulnerability, tells LPs to withdraw ASAP<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A dissection of the recent KyberSwap hack by a decentralized finance (DeFi) expert suggests that the attacker used an \u201cinfinite money glitch\u201d to drain funds. <\/p>\n<p>Ambient exchange founder Doug Colkitt explained the KyberSwap attacker relied on a \u201ccomplex and carefully engineered smart contract exploit\u201d to carry out the attack. <\/p>\n<p>The attacker then repeated this exploit against other Kyberswap pools on multiple networks, eventually getting away with $46 million in crypto loot.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Magazine: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>This is your brain on crypto: Substance abuse grows among crypto traders<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/kyberswap-hacker-offered-4-6-million-bounty-for-return-of-46-million-loot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decentralized exchange KyberSwap has offered a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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