MEV bot loses $180K in ETH from access control exploit

A maximal extractable value (MEV) bot lost about $180,000 in Ether after an attacker exploited a vulnerability in its access control systems.  On April 8, blockchain security firm SlowMist reported that the MEV bot lost 116. 7 Ether (ETH) because of the lack of access control. Threat researcher Vladimir Sobolev, also known as Officer’s Notes on X, told Cointelegraph that an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the bot, causing it to swap its ETH to a dummy token source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/mev-bot-180k-loss-access-control-exploit?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound