Cork Protocol hacked for $12M, smart contracts paused
May 28 2025 - 12:02PM
Cointelegraph


Cork Protocol, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, was hit
by a smart contract exploit on May 28, resulting in the loss of
roughly $12 million in digital assets.
Cybersecurity firm Cyvers said the hack occurred at 11:23:19 UTC
and was funded by an address ending in “762B.” According to the
firm, the attacker used the exploit to steal roughly 3,761 Wrapped
Staked Ether (wstETH), which was converted to Ether (ETH)
almost immediately after the attack.
“We are investigating a potential exploit on Cork Protocol and
are pausing all contracts. We will report back with more
information,” Cork Protocol co-founder Phil Fogel wrote on X.
Cork Protocol smart contract exploit details.
Source: Cyvers
The Cork Protocol exploit is the latest hacking incident to
impact the crypto industry as cybersecurity continues to be a major
issue in the sector, lowering consumer confidence, and prompting calls
to improve security measures from crypto industry
executives.
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The Cetus decentralized crypto exchange (DEX), a trading
platform built on the Sui network, was hacked on May 22, resulting in $223 million in
stolen funds.
Sui validators froze a majority of the funds, sparking a debate
about the centralization of the network and the appropriate course
of action for blockchain validators following a major hacking
incident.
The Cetus team announced a $6 million bounty for white hat hackers
assisting in the return of the remaining stolen funds.
Blockchain security firm Dedaub released a post-mortem
report dissecting the incident details. According
to the report, the hack was caused by an exploit of the liquidity parameters used by the
Cetus automated market maker (AMM).
The hackers manipulated the field by altering values that went
undetected in a most significant bits (MSB) check. Changes to a
binary code’s most significant bits dramatically alter the values
produced by that binary code.
This allowed the hackers to add massive amounts of liquidity to
the system with only a keystroke and drain other liquidity pools of
hundreds of millions of dollars.
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