Golden Finance reported that CertiK Alert, a subsidiary of blockchain security firm CertiK, published an article disclosing that it had detected a series of suspicious transactions involving the Anome Official project on the Base blockchain, which has drawn high attention from the cryptocurrency community.
According to the monitoring data of CertiK Alert, an attacker purchased as many as 1e20 Bnome tokens at an extremely low cost, spending only 0.2 ETH. Subsequently, the attacker promptly provided these tokens to the smart contract with the contract address 0x7144. After completing this operation, the attacker further exploited the mechanism vulnerability of the contract and repeatedly conducted lending operations, successfully borrowing Anome USD worth approximately 44 ETH. Calculated based on the current market exchange rate, this fund is approximately 120,000 US dollars. After achieving success, the attacker did not pause for a moment and immediately deposited the borrowed funds into the anonymous coin-mixing service platform Tornado.Cash.
Tornado.Cash, as a well-known coin mixer, was originally designed to provide users with a certain degree of transaction privacy protection. By mixing the funds of different users together, it makes it extremely difficult to track the flow of funds. But it is precisely this characteristic that makes Tornado.Cash often exploited by lawbreakers, serving as a tool for them to launder illegally obtained funds. Previously, Tornado.Cash was sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury for being repeatedly used in illegal activities such as money laundering. This time, the attacker deposited the funds obtained from the Anome Official project into Tornado.Cash, undoubtedly increasing the difficulty of tracking the whereabouts of the funds and investigating this suspicious transaction.
The specific background and business model of the Anome Official project are not yet fully clear at present, but this suspicious transaction incident has had a negative impact on the reputation of its project. In the field of cryptocurrencies, security issues have always been the lifeline of project development. Once there is a security vulnerability in funds or they are attacked, it will not only lead to the damage of users’ assets, but also may trigger a crisis of trust in the project among users. For investors and ordinary users, such incidents serve as a wake-up call, reminding them that when participating in cryptocurrency projects, they must carefully assess the security and reliability of the project, meticulously review whether the smart contract code of the project has been professionally audited, as well as the measures and capabilities of the project team in terms of security protection.
As a globally leading blockchain security company, CertiK has always been committed to providing comprehensive security auditing, monitoring and early warning services for blockchain projects through advanced technical means and professional security teams. The timely release of suspicious transaction information about the Anome Official project by CertiK Alert this time helps to improve the transparency of the market, enabling more investors and project parties to understand potential security risks in a timely manner and take corresponding preventive measures.
With the continuous development of the cryptocurrency market, various projects keep emerging, the market environment is becoming increasingly complex, and security risks are also increasing accordingly. In the future, both project parties and investors need to pay more attention to blockchain security issues. They should leverage professional security institutions and tools to enhance the security management and risk prevention of projects, and jointly maintain the healthy and stable development of the cryptocurrency market. For the Anome Official project, how to deal with this crisis, regain users’ trust, and whether the regulatory authorities will intervene in the investigation of this suspicious transaction incident will all become the focus of market attention.
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