Arbitrum

GMX - Rekt

DeFi / Crypto - $42 million appeared to vanish from GMX V1 on July 9 via cross-contract reentrancy exploit introduced by a 2022 bug fix. Attacker manipulated globalShortAveragePrices to inflate GLP pricing, but funds were later recovered in coordinated disclosure - $5M bounty paid.

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Just Bad Luck?

DeFi / Crypto - Hackers exploited a hidden proxy backdoor to mint 110,000 $K tokens on Arbitrum, draining $1.55 million from liquidity pools and crashing the price 95%. Kinto blames sophisticated attackers and old proxy code, but the precise execution highlights crypto's ongoing security challenges.

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