Auditors of the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Grim Finance, which was exploited for USD 30m worth of digital assets on Sunday, claim that a new analyst had conducted the protocol's audit while their Chief Technology Officer (CTO) was on vacation.
On December 19, Grim Finance informed users that the project was exploited by an external hacker. "The attacker attacked using the function titled beforeDeposit() from our vault strategy entering a malicious token contract," the team detailed.
Approximately four months ago, Grim Finance was audited by Solidity Finance, a smart contract auditing service. The service said that the issue slipped through their auditing process as they were overwhelmed by the number of projects and busy onboarding
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