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 data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://x.com/SlowMist_Team/status/1909459139715023097″ rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>reported that the MEV bot lost 116.7 Ether ( data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/ethereum-price” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>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.
Sobolev said this was done through a malicious pool created by the attacker within…
