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FireToken

Oct 1, 2024

$20K
Lost
$20K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$20K
Unrecovered0% recovered

FireToken's transfer function automatically burned tokens sent to Uniswap pools and immediately updated reserve balances, allowing attackers to artificially inflate ETH price by reducing FireToken reserves, then repeatedly swapped FireTokens for overpriced ETH.

How the exploit worked

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Pair Manipulation With Transfer Function.

Lost: 8.45 ETH (~$20K USD)

Source: DeFiHackLabs (SunWeb3Sec)

Target
DeFi
Classification
Oracle Manipulation
Technique
Spot Price Manipulation
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
Ethereum

Event timeline

  1. Oct 1, 2024
    Exploit executed — $20K drained via spot price manipulation
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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