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Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 9, 2026Published at 1:46 AM EDT · New York
Two New Exploit Reproductions Land as US Prosecutors Secure a Guilty Plea in a $245 Million Theft Ring
Researchers published working proofs of concept for the RouterDrain and SecuredFi incidents, pushing the DeFiHackLabs catalogue to 842 documented cases, while Malone Lam admitted to a racketeering conspiracy.
Security researchers added two reproducible exploit cases to the DeFiHackLabs repository overnight. The first covers RouterDrain, where a permissionless swap entry point accepted a counterfeit pool contract supplied by the caller, an access…
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