What happened:
The Drift Protocol, a project by Solana, suffered an attack that resulted in the theft of $285 million (R$ 1.4 billion), one of the largest scams ever seen in DeFi. (Portal Tela)
How it worked: The attack did not exploit a traditional smart contract bug — instead, it used a weakness in the system surrounding Solana's durable nonces, a legitimate feature that allows for the preparation and signing of transactions in advance. The attacker gained partial control over the protocol's multisig governance configuration and disabled several risk controls before quickly draining capital from multiple vaults. (Cryptonomist)
The suspect: The blockchain analysis firm Elliptic states that the on-chain behavior is consistent with previous crimes supported by North Korea, which in 2025 was responsible for $2 billion in stolen crypto — about 60% of all stolen digital funds in the world. (Fortune)
The epic message: Drift sent on-chain messages to four Ethereum wallets with the stolen funds, saying: "We are ready to talk." (BitRss)
$BTC $ETH #AnthropicBansOpenClawFromClaude #USNFPExceededExpectations #BitmineIncreasesETHStake
The Drift Protocol, a project by Solana, suffered an attack that resulted in the theft of $285 million (R$ 1.4 billion), one of the largest scams ever seen in DeFi. (Portal Tela)
How it worked: The attack did not exploit a traditional smart contract bug — instead, it used a weakness in the system surrounding Solana's durable nonces, a legitimate feature that allows for the preparation and signing of transactions in advance. The attacker gained partial control over the protocol's multisig governance configuration and disabled several risk controls before quickly draining capital from multiple vaults. (Cryptonomist)
The suspect: The blockchain analysis firm Elliptic states that the on-chain behavior is consistent with previous crimes supported by North Korea, which in 2025 was responsible for $2 billion in stolen crypto — about 60% of all stolen digital funds in the world. (Fortune)
The epic message: Drift sent on-chain messages to four Ethereum wallets with the stolen funds, saying: "We are ready to talk." (BitRss)
$BTC $ETH #AnthropicBansOpenClawFromClaude #USNFPExceededExpectations #BitmineIncreasesETHStake