Super Sushi Samurai Hack

TOTAL LOST $4.8M
Medium Infinite Mint and Dump blast

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ChatGPT Perplexity Claude Grok
Affected Chain blast Incident surface
Recovered - No recovery reported
All-Time Rank #445 By amount stolen
Year 2024 Incident year

Incident Report

Protocol / Project Super Sushi Samurai
Date of Incident
Affected Chain(s) blast
Attack Technique Infinite Mint and Dump
Classification Protocol Logic
Primary Source View Post-Mortem

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.

Technical Knowledge Deep understanding of infinite mint and dump and Solidity and EVM internals
Capital Required Seed capital to cover gas and initial position setup
On-Chain Access Ability to interact with blast smart contracts and deploy a custom exploit contract
Protocol Analysis Identification of the exploitable vulnerability in Super Sushi Samurai's contract logic - root cause: protocol logic
Execution Speed Precise transaction ordering and timing to exploit the vulnerability within a single atomic block
Obfuscation Plan A strategy to launder and move stolen funds - typically through mixers, cross-chain bridges, or decentralized DEX swaps to resist tracing

What Auditors Should Check

Could this have been caught in audit? Likely — with a thorough Infinite Mint and Dump audit checklist and test coverage

If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to Super Sushi Samurai, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (March 2024).

  • Verify all logic paths related to Infinite Mint and Dump are guarded by proper access controls and input validation
  • 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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