🚹 Breaking News: Onyx Exploited for $3.8M! 🚹

In a plot twist that’s more dramatic than a soap opera, DeFi protocol Onyx was exploited for a whopping $3.8 million on Sept. 26. According to blockchain security experts at Peck Shield, the culprit was a known bug in the Compound Finance v2 codebase—yes, the same bug that previously hit Onyx in November. đŸ˜±

- **What Happened?**

- A vulnerability in the NFT liquidation contract was also to blame.

- The loot: 4.1M VUSD, 7.35M XCN, 0.23 WBTC, $5K DAI, and $50K USDT.

The Onyx team, in a Sept. 27 X post, pointed fingers at the faulty NFT contract as the main villain. Peck Shield confirmed that the NFT contract allowed the attacker to inflate the self-liquidation reward.

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