Morning Edition · Tuesday, August 4, 2026Published at 1:45 AM EDT · New York
Exploit Researchers Publish Working Attacks on a Lending Pool and a Base Forwarder Contract
The new proof-of-concept code covers spot-price manipulation at LpdFi and an unprotected arbitrary-call contract on Base, with a recorded loss of about 16.62 ether. In July, stolen keys rather than contract bugs caused the largest losses.
Security researchers at DeFiHackLabs published reproducible attack code for two incidents over the weekend. The first targets LpdFi, also known as LOOPSDAO, through spot-price manipulation combined with an issue-boundary error. This is one…
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