Chibi Finance Hack

TOTAL LOST $1.1M
Medium Rugpull

What happened

The Chibi Finance project on the Arbitrum network was hit by a rugpull, resulting in a loss of 1,052,646 $USD.

Chibi Finance is an Arbitrum-based yield farming protocol. On June 27, 2023, a malicious transaction with draining assets from three contracts took place. A scammer used a privileged function setSettings() to set a malicious contract as a Governance contract.

They then withdrew funds from three smart contracts: StrategyAave, StrategySushiSwap, and StrategyGHA in a single transaction. Several assets were stolen, including 4.2 $WBTC, 256,012 $USDC, 94.6 $WETH, 115,049 $USDT, and SLP tokens as LP tokens for ARB/WETH pool. The stolen funds were valued at 1,052,646 $USD.

All the funds were swapped for $WETH and then bridged using Multichain and Stargate. The project's website shut down and the Twitter account was deleted shortly after an incident.

Scammer Address:

https://arbiscan.io/address/0x80c1ca8f…da58e3

Deployer Address:

https://arbiscan.io/address/0xf0b6dcb0…2acd25

Malicious Transaction:

https://arbiscan.io/tx/0x3cb65210…85db95

Funds Bridging Transactions:

https://arbiscan.io/tx/0x5fad3397…782707

https://arbiscan.io/tx/0xe7a9c825…d4f73c

Malicious Contract:

https://arbiscan.io/address/0xb6122218…0fd6ee

Case & protocol details

Classification Yield Aggregator
Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull
Official Website chibi.finance/
Protocol Twitter/X @Chibi_Fi

Evidence & learning

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