A EigenLayer divulgou um comunicado sobre o dent isolado que drenou uma carteira individual de cerca de US$ 6 milhões em tokens EIGEN. O protocolo de participação Ethereum anunciou que concluiu as investigações relativas à liquidação não aprovada.
EigenLayer afirmou que o dent não afetou a infraestrutura interna do protocolo, incluindo o site da EigenLayer, protocolos internos e trac inteligentes de token. O anúncio também detalhou que o dent não estava relacionado a qualquer disfuncionalidade na rede.
EigenLayer enfatizou que a investigação se concentrou em uma análise abrangente do processo de aprovação de transferência de token do protocolo para dent quaisquer vulnerabilidades que possam resultar em um dent semelhante. EigenLayer também mencionou que a revisão do processo de transferência visa criar soluções de melhorias para minimizar riscos no futuro.
Após o nosso primeiro relatório deste dent isolado envolvendo múltiplas partes em 4 de outubro de 2024, a investigação deste dent foi concluída. O dent não afetou nosso site, nenhum protocolo ou trac inteligente de token e não estava relacionado a nenhum onchain… https://t.co/3f0G1IyPJY
-EigenLayer (@eigenlayer) 29 de outubro de 2024
As a result of the investigations, the restaking platform announced new security and process measures. EigenLayer assured investors their funds would be locked up when they transfer their tokens to custodians.
The announcement extended gratitude to third parties such as ZachXBT, zeroShadow, and Cryptoforensic investigators. EigenLayer took part in the investigations and the law enforcement froze a substantial amount of the stolen funds.
EigenLayer had also contracted SlowMist, a blockchain security firm, to investigate the incident. SlowMist announced that the incident was caused by an external malicious attack. According to SlowMist, one of Eigen Labs’ investors experienced a phishing attack that caused a subsequent compromise on one of the investor’s employees.
The attacker managed to access an email thread between the custodian, the investor, and Eigen Labs, where the parties had conversations about transferring the investor’s tokens to a custodian. The malicious attacker then created lookalike emails posing as the investor and the custodian. Using the spoofed investor email, the attacker responded to the thread and sneaked in their address rather than the custodial address.
The attacker confirmed to have received a test transaction posing as the custodian, and the rest of the transaction involving 1,673,645 EIGEN tokens was executed without further confirmation.
“The attacker sold these stolen EIGEN tokens via a decentralized swap platform and transferred stablecoins to centralized exchanges.”
The attacker then swapped the EIGEN tokens to stablecoins through a decentralized swap platform and transferred the tokens to centralized exchanges. The security team at Eigen Labs contacted law enforcement and the DeFi platform, freezing a portion of the funds.
According to CoinMarketCap, EigenLayer’s native asset, EIGEN, has dipped by over 17% in the last seven days. EIGEN is trading at a price of $2.85 with a market cap of $531.2 million. The token surged to its all-time high of $4.53 at the beginning of October, but it is currently down by 38%.