CoW Swap hacker milks over 550 BNB using solver exploit - Check out the story here

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Security firm PeckShield reported that the hacker successfully drained roughly 551 BNB off CoW Swap into Tornado Cash, which was worth around $181,600 at the time of writing.

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Decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol CoW Swap recently suffered an attack, losing at least 550 BNB

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Blockchain surveyor MevRefund flagged the event and detected that the funds seemed to be moving away from CoW Swap.

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The maximal extractable value (MEV) searcher warned the DEX and its users of the exploit in a Twitter thread.

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According to the smart contract auditing firm BlockSec, a wallet address was added as a “solver” of CoW Swap by a multisig

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Blockchain security firm PeckShield estimated that around 551 BNB was lost, worth $181,600 at the time of writing.

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During the attack, some community members panicked and urged users to revoke approvals from the DEX.

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According to CoW Swap, the exploited settlement contract only has access to the fees that the protocol collected in a week.

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