A vulnerabilities in the Ankr project allowed a hacker to to monetize and download millions of from the BNB liquidity pool yesterday.
This was noted by Nansen, a blockchain analytics provider, which reported that it was six thousand trillion aBNBc had been minted. suddenly.
Nansen further reported that the attacker was making an effort to download the tokens to decentralized exchanges based on BNB. Chain. This would be done by using a Tornado Cash network implementation.a cryptographic mixing protocol widely used to obfuscate the transaction history of digital assets. In this way, the criminal attempted to withdraw the assets coined and stolen by the Ethereum Network.
Another blockchain analysis company, LookonChain, reported via its official Twitter profile that the attacker has at least taken control of $5 million.
The aBNBc clusters in PancakeSwap and ApeSwap have been completely emptied. In just 60 minutes. The attack was reflected in the price of the asset with a brutal fall that brought its price to 300 dollars to just over a dollar..
The aBNBc token is typically used to accumulate BNB participation awards. allowing holders maintain their liquidity.
Return to normalcy
Ankr said it is working with cryptocurrency exchanges to disrupt trading of the aBNBc token.. He also reported that the Ankr Staking’s underlying assets are safe and secure and that infrastructure services are unaffected.
He later explained that he intends to reimburse users affected by the attack on BNB’s liquidity pool.
The team also shared in a tweet that “will take a snapshot and will issue ankrBNB again. to all valid aBNBc holders before the exploit.”.
Another measure they say they want to implement for compensate liquidity providers The group concerned will buy $5 million in BNB, as reported in the tweet.
The No. 1 trading platform in the cryptocurrency market.Binance seized funds linked to Ankr exploit.as reported by CZ of the company. As reported, the criminal allegedly moved 3 million dollars at the exchange.