Governance Attack Drains Protocol Treasury of $9.4M
The attacker accumulated voting power through flash loans before passing a malicious proposal.
A small but liquid DeFi protocol's treasury was drained of $9.4 million on Thursday in a governance attack, after the attacker temporarily accumulated voting power through flash loans, passed a malicious proposal, and executed it before the protocol's emergency multisig could intervene.
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