Ethereum

DeFi

Hundred Finance

April

Flash

The whole amount that the <a href="https://www.cryptopolitan.com/hackers-tornado-cash-launder-prism-finance/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">hacker</a> kept in their Ethereum wallet at the moment is about 4.3 million dollars. After a year of inactivity, the hacker of Hundred Finance, DeFi protocol who stole 7.4 million USD, began to transfer the crypto assets.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="dormant-hacker-reactivates">Dormant hacker reactivates</h2>
The wallet of the hacker who took away the liquidity of the DEX Curve not so long ago, amounting to about 800,000 from their savings, currently contains a total of 4.3M assets, including a significant amount of cryptocurrencies, like Dai.
One of the coins held is wrapped in <a href="https://etherscan.io/txs?a=0x155da45d374a286d383839b1ef27567a15e67528" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Ether</a>, a digital coin. Then there is another called FRAX, and lastly, the third one is Wrapped Bitcoin. DeFi, on April 15, 2023, went on to say that it was attacked on a layer-2 network esteemed for its security optimism.
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 Source:&nbsp;Etherscan.
As per the security firm CertiK report, the attacker has altered the currency conversion between ERC-20 tokens and hTOKENS, which appears to be their main objective. With this mechanism, they ended up exiting with more tokens in their hands than when they went in.
A flash loan attack is a very well-known terminology, the defi-verse. This type of attack vector will generally be a large unsecured loan taken from a lending platform and issued by a Borrower who does not have enough funds in the same platform or from collateralized loans.
The hacker resorts to the assets in furtherance of the scheme with connected crypto and DeFi platforms for price manipulation. In the Hundred Finance hack, the perpetrators assume huge loans based on the falsified foreign exchange rate.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="flash-loan-attack-trends">Flash loan attack trends</h2>
In 2022, Attackers and other destructive elements attacked the Gnosis Chain network on Hundred Finance. A reentrancy attack drained the protocol of $6 million of liquidity. Although flash loan attacks are a new phenomenon in the crypto space, data shows that the cases have decreased since April 2024.
Contrary to statistics released by one of the world reports, flash loans decreased to only $129k in April. The biggest incident of the month, a single event, cost around $55,000 to repair. CertiK declared that very recently, a record-low amount was lost to the attacks on flash loans compared to February 2022.
However, November suffered moderate losses due to crypto hacks compared to April. According to the other party’s security unit, PeckShield, the month’s<a href="https://www.cryptopolitan.com/white-hat-hackers-unite-under-seal911/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> hacks</a> were the only thing that brought $60 million to the company. The magnitude of the losses of $360 million and $187 million for February and March has sunk by $305 million in April compared to the preceding months.

Flash loan crypto hacks hit record lows in April

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