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Monthly Security Review: October 2024

November 1, 2024

Security at a Glance ๐Ÿ‘€

Radiant: $58M

On October 16th, Radiant Capital suffered a security breach on Arbitrum and BSC, resulting in losses exceeding $50M. While the complete technical details of the exploit remain undisclosed, the protocol team confirmed the compromise of several developer wallets as the attack vector.

Read Radiantโ€™s post-mortem report for more details

Unknown: $1.4M

On October 24th, an unknown Compound-fork protocol was exploited on Base, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.4m. While the affected contracts were unverified at the time of the incident, our analysis indicates that this attack was probably due to vulnerable price dependency on Uniswap spot price.

View the complete attack transaction list via Phalcon's Security Incidents

EGA: $554K

On October 5th, an unverified contract was exploited on BSC, causing a loss of $554k. The root cause was the lack of slippage protection in the function that buys EGA tokens from Pancake pairs, susceptible to price manipulation attacks.

Track the attack details using Phalcon Explorer

P719: $315K

On October 11th, P719 token was exploited on BSC, resulting in a loss of $315k. While the compromised contract was unverified, we suspect the root cause was a flawed token burn mechanism within the P719 trading functionality.

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Drift Protocol Incident: Multisig Governance Compromise via Durable Nonce Exploitation

On April 1, 2026 (UTC), Drift Protocol on Solana suffered a $285.3M loss after an attacker exploited Solana's durable nonce mechanism to delay the execution of phished multisig approvals, ultimately transferring administrative control of the protocol's 2-of-5 Squads governance with zero timelock. With full admin privileges, the attacker created a malicious collateral market (CVT), inflated its oracle price, relaxed withdrawal protections, and drained USDC, JLP, SOL, cbBTC, and other assets through 31 rapid withdrawals in approximately 12 minutes. This incident highlights how durable nonce-based delayed execution can decouple signer intent from on-chain execution, bypassing the temporal assumptions that multisig security implicitly relies on.

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Weekly Web3 Security Incident Roundup | Mar 23 โ€“ Mar 29, 2026

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Newsletter - March 2026

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