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Cetus Protocol Exploit Highlights Persistent DeFi Security Flaws
Cetus Protocol Exploit Highlights Persistent DeFi Security Flaws
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The Cetus Protocol hack ranks among the largest decentralized finance exploits to date, exposing systemic vulnerabilities in smart contract auditing processes. Attackers drained liquidity pools by exploiting a critical overflow flaw in the protocol’s automated market Maker logic—a vulnerability first identified in a 2022 Ottersec audit but left unpatched.
Blockchain security firm Dedaub’s post-mortem reveals the attack Leveraged miswritten conditions for handling large numerical inputs. By manipulating most significant bit processing, attackers converted negligible token deposits into disproportionate liquidity credits. The incident follows a familiar pattern of projects failing to remediate known security issues despite audit findings.
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