Karastar Hack

Reported loss $69K
Access Control

What happened

Jul-26-2024 Abandoned Karastar project was drained for about $69k USD.

On Jul-26-2024 Karastar GameFi contracts were drained with losses of about 120BNB.  Exploiter upgraded a few implementations and used a backdoor function for token stealing: transfer(address token, address fromUser, uint256 value).

Proxy upgrade tx:

Tx 0x289a…9b61

Drain TX:

Tx 0x50cc…2373

Funds held by:

Address 0x2b8D…5a6A

Protocol details

Classification Gaming / Metaverse
Protocol Type Exploit/Access control
Affected asset / contract KARA
Protocol links Website @karastargamefi

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