Skyward finance exploit allegedly results in $3 million loss

Skyward finance, an IDO platform enabling honest token distribution for tasks on the NEAR Protocol, has reportedly been exploited for 1.1M NEAR tokens, price an estimated $3 million USD at time of publication. 

The information was shared on Twitter by Aurora Lab’s neighborhood moderator Sanket Naikwadi, who acknowledged that the exploit was first seen by a member of the NEAR protocol neighborhood, who goes by the deal with @Nearscout.

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The @skywardfinance was simply exploited for ~1.1M $NEAR Tokens (Value ~3M) .

Thnx to @NearScout for noticing the treasury drain, he pinged me asking if one thing is improper with skyward… then we appeared into contract txns and came upon concerning the exploit and sus txns.

smol

— SankΞt Ⓝ⚡️| sanketn81.close to ,sanketn81.lens (@sanket_naikwadi) November 2, 2022

In line with the collection of tweets on the exploit, Ref finance — a community-led multi-purpose DeFi platform constructed on the NEAR Protocol — and the Skyward crew have been notified of the drain.

The exploiter reportedly initiated the drain by shopping for numerous skyward tokens on Ref Finance, and “then redeemed it by Treasury on Skyward Finance.”, the place they seem to have “received numerous NEAR than what 1 SKYWARD was price”.

Naikwadi cautioned SKYWARD Token holders to redeem or swap their tokens wherever they’ll, and now not work together with Skyward Finance, including that the “Hacker has already withdrawn NEAR to numerous totally different wallets.”

When you’re a SKYWARD Token holder redeem/swap wherever you possibly can and now not work together with Skyward Finance.
Hacker has already withdrawn NEAR to numerous totally different wallets.

Enormous shoutout once more to @NearScout.
additionally, Shoutout to @pikespeak_ai , it helped loads in figuring out the txns

— SankΞt Ⓝ⚡️| sanketn81.close to ,sanketn81.lens (@sanket_naikwadi) November 2, 2022

Associated: Barely midway and October already the most important month in crypto hacks: Finance Refined

Exploits throughout the Defi ecosystem seem like on the rise. Blockchain analytics agency Chainalysis recentlylabeled October 2022 as “the most important month within the greatest yr ever for hacking exercise.”

On Oct 12, Cointelegraph reported that $100 million price of cryptocurrency was drained from Solana-based decentralized finance (DeFi) trade Mango Markets, leading to its token plunging by 52%. On the identical day of the Mango Market’s exploit, TempleDAO was additionally exploited for $2 million.