Computer pirates drained more than $ 2.15 million of intelligent contracts from Token Mobius ($ MBU) in the BNB chain in a directed exploit detected at the beginning of May 11, according to the security firm Cyvers Alerts.
The attacker displayed the contract of the Directorate 0xb32A53 … at 07:31:38 UTC and began the exploit at 07:33:56 UTC, exhausting funds from the victim wallet 0xb5252f …
Cyvers confirmed to Cointelegraph that the attacker used the contract 0x631ADF … to execute a series of malicious transactions. The intelligent contract exhausted 28.5 million MBU tokens and turned them into Stablecoins, which resulted in a net loss of $ 2,152,219.99 for the victim.
In total, the attacker stole 28.5 million MBU tokens and turned them to $ 2.15 million in USDT.
Cyvers labeled the exploit as “critical” and pointed out the use of the attacker of the suspicious contract code and abnormal transaction patterns.
The attacker’s wallet remains active and has preserved stolen funds from the publication. The Mobius Token team has not yet issued an official statement.
“Two minutes before the exploit, our system identified an implementation of a malicious intelligent contract that finally addressed Token Mobius contracts,” Cyvers wrote in X.
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