Incident Overview
DappNode project's team wallet's private keys were compromised. The hacker was able to withdraw 158343 $USD worth of assets.
DappNode is a decentralized network-creating tool. The project also has its DAO and ERC20 token $NODE. The project's team wallet's private keys were compromised.
The team is announcing that the wallet was created using the Profanity tool. The hacker transferred 58 $ETH and 552 $GNO to an EOA address and then moved through TornadoCash. The total funds lost is 158,343 $USD.
Attacker address:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x271d179b…3a6951
Transfer transactions:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb4b0ccab…9a31ee
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb49c0f60…2be63e
Incident Report
Protocol Information
What the Attacker Needed to Succeed
Understanding the prerequisites for this type of attack helps auditors identify protocols that are most at risk and helps developers build better defenses.
What Auditors Should Check
If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to DappNode, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (October 2022).
- Verify all logic paths related to Access Control are guarded by proper access controls and input validation - see the Access Control Attacks attack class for patterns
- Review privileged functions (owner, admin, governance) for potential abuse vectors - centralization risks should be documented and bounded with timelocks or multi-sigs
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