Crypto Hack: LI FI Cross-Chain Aggregator Suffers $9.73M Breach

Crypto Hack: LI FI, a cross-chain transaction aggregator, has recently suffered a security breach. Cybers Alerts has reported some transactions as potentially fraudulent and has recommended that users should cancel them. The hacker has withdrawn over $9.7 million, mostly in stablecoins, and is swapping USDC and USDT for ETH.

LI FI Cross-Chain Aggregator Suffers $8M Breach

According to a report by Cybers Alerts, the LI FI breach is associated with the Ethereum address 0x1231deb6f5749ef6ce6943a275a1d3e7486f4eae. Per the announcement, this address should not be approved by the users, and approvals should be withdrawn as soon as possible. The current impact of the attack has been estimated to be around $9.73 million of user funds.

#CertiKInsight

Our alerting system has flagged multiple suspicious transactions involving EOA 0x8B3Cb6Bf982798fba233Bca56749e22EEc42DcF3

The wallet is currently holding $8.7m worth of assets

We are currently investigating pic.twitter.com/15OXsHeT9Y

— CertiK Alert (@CertiKAlert) July 16, 2024

The majority of these funds are stablecoins like USDC and USDT, which the attacker swaps for ETH.

The LI FI team has recommended to the users not to use any LI FI based applications for now. They have given a list of addresses for which approvals should be withdrawn in order to avoid any further access.

Urgent Revocation of Approvals

In response to the breach, LI FI has identified four additional addresses that require immediate revocation of approvals: The impressions are 0x341e94069f53234fE6DabeF707aD424830525715, 0xDE1E598b81620773454588B85D6b5D4eEC32573e, and 0x24ca98fB6972F5eE05f0dB00595c7f68D9FaFd68.

These addresses have a setting called Infinite Approvals which if active, can pose a risk to the user and must be corrected by removing them with the recommended tools including revoke. cash.

LI FI team is in the process of working on the exploit and therefore has shut down Sharpe Bridge and Sharpe Refuel. Users who have not configured infinite approvals are not affected, and other Sharpe applications are also not affected.

Ongoing Crypto Hack Investigations

The LI FI breach is one of the latest security incidents in the DeFi sector. For instance, the DeFi lending protocol known as UwU Lend was hacked, and the attackers removed about $19.3 million. In this incident, the hacker performed three transactions within six minutes to steal major cryptocurrencies, including WBTC and stablecoins.

Moreover, the recent Squarespace incident has affected over 105 Web3 platforms, including popular projects such as Compound Finance and Celer Network. This breach has impacted many platforms from which we see the necessitation of implementing better security protocols in the crypto market.

Security companies like Arkham and Cyvers have been on the lookout for these breaches. Thus, the LI FI breach has elicited a prompt reaction from the community, with security companies and applications encouraging people to act and secure their funds. The current investigations are in a bid to establish the causes of the exploit thus preventing the occurrence of similar incidents.

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