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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 9, 2026Published at 2:30 AM EDT · New York
A Governance Timeout, a Flash-Loan Oracle Trick and an Unvalidated Parameter: Three New Exploit Proofs Published
Panther Protocol lost 5.12 million ZKP on Base after nobody bonded against a malicious proposal, and researchers added working reproductions of two further attack classes to the public exploit archive.
Security researchers published three new proof-of-concept reproductions to the DeFiHackLabs archive in the past 48 hours, each corresponding to a distinct root cause. The largest is the Panther Protocol governance attack on Base. On 6 Augus…
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