# 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.

- Published: 2026-09-09T05:46:55.977Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-09-09/two-new-exploit-reproductions-land-as-us-prosecutors-secure
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [DeFiHackLabs (RouterDrain)](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/1cd4ba49c4aaad2f737d44dccfeb4a23c5ae08d1), [DeFiHackLabs (SecuredFi)](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/4fe8548ff6fa5e8ab94d34faff4d8b7827129a36), [DeFiHackLabs (incident count)](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/e14372202ace15af34dbeaeb705015b4b4229a37), [crypto.news](https://crypto.news/malone-lam-admits-role-in-245m-crypto-crime-ring/), [Rekt News](https://www.rekt.news/)

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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