Security Incident · ETH Ecosystem
MEV Bot Flash Loan Attack: $2.15M Reported Loss
The MEV Bot (0x05f016765c6c601fd05a10dba1abe21a04f924a5) was exploited and lost about 1k ETH!
- Reported loss
- $ 2,152,392
- Attack category
- Flash Loan Attack
Incident Overview
The core reason is that the 0xf6ebebbb function used to trigger arbitrage in the contract lacks authentication. The attacker calls this function to exchange the tokens in the contract into the pool on curve, and then uses funds of the flash loan to reverse exchange and obtain profit.
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