According to TechFlow, Zest Protocol, a decentralized lending protocol in the Stacks ecosystem, released a security update and froze the smart contract due to an attack. The attacker manipulated the value of the collateral and took out STX far in excess of its due amount. The Zest team has frozen the contract, and the stSTX funds are not affected. The attacker stole a total of 324,000 STX, which will be compensated by the Zest treasury. The investigation found that the attacker had exchanged BTC for STX through the XLink cross-chain bridge, and these BTC came from a withdrawal transaction on Binance. Zest called on people who know the identity of the attacker to contact the team. The contract is currently being re-audited, and the protocol will be put back online after security is confirmed, and user balances will remain unchanged.