Cypher Protocol reveals $600K of stolen funds is now frozen on CEXs

Solana-based decentralized futures exchange Cypher Protocol has managed to freeze $600,000 price of crypto stolen from an Aug. 7 safety exploit.

In an X (Twitter) submit on Aug. 18, Cypher Protocol reported that greater than half of the funds stolen have been efficiently frozen throughout centralized exchanges with the assistance of a number of impartial blockchain investigators.

“The return of those funds will likely be predicated on the cooperation of those CEXs and seizure warrants being issued by regulation enforcement,” it stated.

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~$600k has been frozen throughout CEXs, the return of those funds will likely be predicated on the cooperation of those CEXs and seizure warrants being issued by regulation enforcement

— cypher ©️ (@cypher_protocol) August 17, 2023

Cypher was exploited on Aug. 7 for round $1 million, ensuing within the protocol halting its good contracts.

The DeFi alternate allows lending and borrowing via major accounts with a number of cross-collateralized sub-accounts. Nonetheless, the vulnerabilities prevented correct monitoring of remoted sub-accounts and inadequate margin checks earlier than borrowing, defined blockchain safety agency Halborn.

The attacker exploited these code vulnerabilities utilizing a number of accounts to empty an estimated $1 million in varied crypto belongings, together with USDT, USDT, SOL, wETH and a handful of different altcoins.

On Aug. 10, the workforce managed to make contact with the hacker after it offered a ten% white hat bounty price round $120,000.

Two days later, the protocol stated the hacker had missed the deadline to return the funds and opened the bounty as much as the general public. Additionally they hinted at realizing the partial identification of the exploiter.

The reward bounty is now open to the general public pic.twitter.com/fEIiQ8rTKN

— cypher ©️ (@cypher_protocol) August 12, 2023

On Aug. 16, Cypher announced a redemption plan and “socialized losses coverage” to distribute remaining belongings to affected customers. A redemption package deal with protocol belongings will likely be distributed professional rata based mostly on person share, it said.

“The worth used for redemption in relation to a margin account will likely be based mostly on a snapshot of the account’s belongings on the time Cypher protocol was frozen,” totaling round 31 cents on the greenback it added.

In its newest assertion, Cypher thanked blockchain sleuth ZachXBT, including “he was invaluable to the Cypher workforce and the principle contributor within the preliminary freezing of funds throughout a number of CEXs, and in addition aided in monitoring the attacker.”

Cointelegraph reached out to ZachXBT for remark however had not heard again on the time of writing.

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According to the REKT database, the Cypher exploit was not the biggest thus far in August, coming in third.

DeFi protocol Zunami suffered a $2.1 million flash mortgage assault on Aug. 13 and leveraged yield aggregation platform Steadefi was exploited for $1.1 million on Aug. 7.

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