Novo Hack
What happened
A flashloan attack was carried out on the Nova project during which the attacker managed to withdraw 278 $BNB from the protocol.
Novo is decentralized and deflationary volume-based cryptocurrency protocol available on the Binance Smart Chain based on the $NOVO token.
The attacker created a one-time wallet (attacker address (A)) that was used to attack $NOVO. Using this wallet, attacker created a smart contract, which was not verified, in order to make an attack on the token:
In the same transactions, the profit received was sent to the scammer address (B). Then all the remaining profits were sent directly to the scammer address (B):
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x21bbfa5c…a0867d
All the profit was laundered via Tornado.Cash.
Involved addresses:
0x81d3ec77438b4e99aa99ba25b1dbc3fea317fe3b0x81d3ec77438b4e99aa99ba25b1dbc3fea317fe3b
- Attacker address (A): https://bscscan.com/address/0x31A7CC04…29186E
- Attacker address (B): https://bscscan.com/address/0x03765646…7b524b
Smart contracts:
Attacker contract: https://bscscan.com/address/0x3463A663…18cf2a
Victim contract (NOVO token): https://bscscan.com/address/0x6fb2020c…253333
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
Attack pattern
Compare incidents →Sources and on-chain records
- report Report novodefi.xyz
- analysis Web Archive web.archive.org
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