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Morning Edition · Friday, September 25, 2026Published at 1:49 AM EDT · New York
September's Smaller Exploits Cluster Around Oracles, Cosmos EVM and Unauthorized Minting
Nostra lost $3.5 million to oracle manipulation on Starknet, a Nomic forwarding bug minted unbacked bitcoin claims on Osmosis, and Cronos rewound almost 11,000 blocks to claw back most of a $120 million collateral attack.
Away from the Bitget breach, the month's incident log shows the same three failure modes repeating. Nostra, a lending protocol on Starknet, lost $3.5 million on 17 September when an attacker manipulated the price feed the protocol used to v…
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