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Morning Edition · Wednesday, October 7, 2026Published at 1:31 AM EDT · New York
Security roundup: attackers drain a legacy Set Protocol product, a Perpetual Protocol vault and BNB Chain token contracts
A MOKE over-mint on BNB Chain netted about 1,546 BNB, and none of the four losses has been reported frozen, recovered or attributed.
The DeFiHackLabs repository added proof-of-concept (PoC) reconstructions this week for several exploits. The vulnerable code was mostly old, and in every case the attacker needed no privileged keys. MOKE (BNB Chain), price manipulation plus…
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