Aave Protocol Hack
What happened
A user's Aave Protocol assets were stolen using phishing attack, which resulted in a loss of 1,201,576 $USD.
A user approved trading for four different tokens of Aave Protocol, such as $aArbWETH, $aFanWETH, $aArbWBTC and $aFanUSDC, possible via phishing attack. The attacker took the assets and then swapped them into 1,201,576 $USDC using four smart contract with unverified source code, and than all selfdestructed. The funds were transferred through Celer Bridge.
Attacker addresses:
https://arbiscan.io/address/0x053a85c5…8408d1
https://arbiscan.io/address/0x0a009741…f00012
Malicious transaction:
https://arbiscan.io/tx/0x3c79b996…4a2467
Approval transaction:
https://arbiscan.io/tx/0x4d8ecb31…e54ed1
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
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