Crypto cybersecurity firm Cyvers has reported a security incident affecting DeltaPrime, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol on the Arbitrum network.
According to a tweet from Cyvers, the ongoing incident resulted in an initial estimated loss of $4.5 million—subsequently updated to $5.93 million as a “suspicious address” continued to drain funds from DeltaPrime’s liquidity pools.
🚨ALERT🚨@DeltaPrimeDefi has faced a security incident on their admin keys. Attacker had control on the private key of 0x40e4ff9e018462ce71fa34abdfa27b8c5e2b1afb then he upgraded the proxy!
The security firm stated that their system detected “multiple suspicious transactions” involving DeltaPrime on the Arbitrum (ARB) chain, adding that the protocol's administrator may have lost control of their private keyprivate key, leading to unauthorized access to the platform's smart contracts.
Control over this key allowed the entity to update the proxy smart contract to execute the attack.
The incident has affected several of DeltaPrime's liquidity pools, including DPUSDC, DPARB, and DPBTCb. Cyvers noted that the address associated with the suspicious activity has begun converting USDC tokens to Ethereum (ETH).
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