Balancer Defi Protocol announced vulnerability in the user interface – Bits Media

The Balanceer decentralized protocol team warned of vulnerability in the user interface, with which the attackers have already stolen $238 000.

Balancer technical specialists published on Twitter a call to customers not to interact with the main Balancer user interface. An investigation is already underway for this incident, Therefore, customers are asked to maintain vigilance and wait for new notifications.

The balancer frontend is under an attack. The issue is currently under investigation. Please do NOT interact with the balancer UI until further notice!

— Balancer (@Balancer) September 19, 2023

"Blockchain-Summary" under the nickname Zachxbt reported, that the attackers managed to steal $ 238,000 in cryptocurrencies. The stolen funds are sent to a certain address of the Ethereum with the signature of Balancer Attacker, Where are now 68 ETH на $111 000. There were also here
Bal tokens translated, Steth and wrapped AAVE tokens.

Stolen funds are being directed to this address

0x645710Af050E26bB96e295bdfB75B4a878088d7E

~$238k stolen so far pic.twitter.com/rwMybBaLoA

— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) September 20, 2023

At the end of August, Balancer experts discovered a critical vulnerability in some liquidity pools of the second version, Having advised users to withdraw funds. Fortunately, Hackers did not have time to take advantage of vulnerability, but the liquidity of the Balancer protocol fell on $200 million.

Balancer is not the only Defi platform, who became a victim of cyber attacks. According to Beosin, in 2022 the majority of hacker attacks were on Defi projects, and their losses in total made up $950 million.