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K9 Finance offers $ 23K Bounty after $ 2.4M Shibarium Bridge Exploit


The decentralized financial platform of the Shiba Inu on the Shibarium Layer-2 network offers a 5 ether ($ 23,000) kindness to attacking behind a recent exploitation of the bridge, encouraging the return of stolen properties.

On Monday, the Defi platform sent An onchain message to the attack that says the bounty offer will remain open within 30 days. The protocol has added a deadline and a condition that will begin to decrease in large amounts to seven days.

“Removal is atomic when we call Recoverknine (). If you call it accept () we can’t cancel the deal. The code is law,” wrote K9 Finance. “Live is live. Please, act fast.”

In an X post last Saturday, Shiba Inu developer Kaal Dhaairya Says that as they were in contact with the authorities, the team was open to talk to the attack.

The message of K9 Finance at the Shibarium Attacker. Source: Etherscan

Shiba Inu’s Shibarium Bridge has lost nearly $ 2.4 million to take advantage of

The exploitation on Saturday was drained by nearly $ 2.4 million in digital assets after malicious actors access validator’s signing keys. Using a flash loan to buy 4.6 million bone shibaswap (Bone) Tokens, the attack gained most of the validation strength and signed a malicious transaction to move funds out of the bridge.

Dhaairya said that in response to the attack, Shibarium developers stopped their operations and uncertain and moved their stake manager funds into a hardware wallet controlled by a multisig.

The developer said restoring network security and keeping user assets remains the team’s top priority. Dhaairya added that they are working on security teams, including hexens, 911 stamps and peckshield to investigate.

The tokens associated with the Shiba Inu ecosystem have seen price falls after exploitation. The shiba inu (Shib) token Fall From $ 0.0000145 on Saturday to $ 0.0000131 at the time of writing, a 7% decline.

K9 Finance (Knine) token Fall From $ 0.00000287 to $ 0.00000257, a 10% collapse. Meanwhile, Shibaswap’s token, bone, has suffered A 38% fall since the week, from $ 0.31 to $ 0.19.

The 24 -hour shiba price chart of the Shiba Inu. Source: Coingecko

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Thorchain co-founder lost $ 1.35 million from DPRK attack

Shibarium exploitation follows another smaller attack that targets the personal purse of Thorchain co-founder John-Paul Thorbjornsen (JP Thor). Onchain investigator zachxbt reported On Friday Thorbjornsen was drained after a scam call meeting on Telegram.