Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 5, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
Researchers Publish Exploit Reproductions for Three DeFi Drains, Including an EIP-7702 Self-Delegation Attack
The MOKE token was drained through an unprotected claim function combined with a wallet-delegation feature added to Ethereum last year, while LpdFi lost close to $700,000 to flash-loan price manipulation.
Security researchers at DeFiHackLabs published working reproductions of three separate exploits overnight, each demonstrating a different failure class. The pattern across them is familiar to anyone who reads incident reports. None required…
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