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Copycats of the Popsicle Finance Attack

Code Auditing
August 9, 2021

Our system has observed a couple of transactions that have called “collectFees(0,0)” of the SorbettoFragola contract. Some of them are the copycats who want to launch the similar attack of (0xcd7dae143a4c0223349c16237ce4cd7696b1638d116a72755231ede872ab70fc). Fortunately, there are only limited number of tokens in the pool.

“2021–08–04T12:17:27Z” : [ “0xfdeb455027202aa1e82e0eef85075870db0fb4a2427e81bc3a01973024923c39” ],

“2021–08–07T07:33:36Z” : [ “0xdb5303b6e5aa0148bdd31fd5c51319243940755e956002b820033b1eba602ef6” ],

“2021–08–03T22:53:42Z” : [ “0xcd7dae143a4c0223349c16237ce4cd7696b1638d116a72755231ede872ab70fc” ],

“2021–07–21T22:06:24Z” : [ “0x631cdd776ceeb062a6c71ebddd7357a5d873182446382c03bd8abaf85deb69e4” ],

“2021–08–04T11:01:18Z” : [ “0xa4430da5cc039b84213b44e4ca6ade9750fab987fbab3da27a11bbd0c7d23ee6” ],

“2021–08–05T14:46:05Z” : [ “0xf7d36fff17b56d5396539c8573ffeb8abd4b67ee22f4a7c492f2bd0ddfba8272” ],

“2021–08–06T11:26:57Z” : [ “0xb25e3f872896a0fde22ce60b57553b5304aa4584c47bdb293589bdbd3317de65” ],

“2021–08–05T11:52:23Z” : [ “0x1af887449dac564272fa15a8d91012759e40c1356b6ffcd5c88d2ac50c8c8502” ],

“2021–08–04T10:22:49Z” : [ “0xe86742e4c6831c6a46278d9a0143adbc8885a6f56191c52045e775ee22f870b0” ],

“2021–08–02T05:36:13Z” : [ “0x2016024bcb3ab283f367dfb34fced088db170c3c6cd026aa9f5c968654fd0142” ],

“2021–07–31T01:56:50Z” : [ “0xf34d0039dc0b20174e77cec510d7a094a2e81b4161a2a537de95b1fd089ae6f9” ],

“2021–08–06T07:34:22Z” : [ “0x2810a6f9f158c4e463e165e0aee6fecb1e617295e2215e015ee03d7265bd1e5a” ],

“2021–08–04T08:39:46Z” : [ “0xcc5a321ac3897beae976bceeeb651fa62f9975df90dd6431e73a8416bdf723b9” ]

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