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Morning Edition · Saturday, September 19, 2026Published at 1:45 AM EDT · New York
Authorization Bypass in a Safe Router Module Drains $7.73 Million of Restaked Ether
A copying bot took the proceeds from the original attacker, in a week that also brought a Bitcoin bridge double-spend and a lending fork that erased debt without burning collateral.
A proof of concept published by DeFiHackLabs reconstructs the theft, on 15 September, of more than $7.73 million from a Safe multi-signature wallet holding Aave-wrapped restaked ether. The router module attached to the wallet checked author…
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