ArbixFinance was Rugged and More than $10 Million was Lost

Key Takeaways:

PeckShield informed people that they have detected that ArbixFinance was rugged and more than $10 million was lost.
CertiK Security Leaderboard shared the incident analysis.
The funds deposited by users ($10M) were directed to unverified pools via the depositor contract.

Arbixfinance Was Rugged And More Than $10 Million Was Lost — ArbixFinance was Rugged and More than $10 Million was Lost

Today PeckShield informed people that they have detected that ArbixFinance was rugged. More than $10 million was lost. ArbixFinance was audited by CertiK Security Leaderboard. They have also informed people about this rug pull through their Twitter handle. People are questioning CertiK Security Leaderboard about it. Most people invested in ArbixFinance because they trusted the audit done by CertiK Security Leaderboard.

@certik_io was this audit legit? Cause it looks like they just rugged or got hacked.https://t.co/vD3qV3DY92 @ArbixFinance
— Zik (@MarkZik) January 4, 2022

CertiK Security Leaderboard shared the incident analysis. According to them, $ARBX first contract has mint() with onlyOwner function. Then 10M $ARBX were minted to 8 addresses. First 4.5M ARBX were minted to: 0x161262d172699cf0a5e09b6cdfa5fee7f32c183d. Then the second 4.5M ARBX were dumped.

Incident Analysis????

1. $ARBX contract has mint() with onlyOwner function

2. 10M $ARBX were minted to 8 addresses

3. ~4.5M ARBX were minted to: 0x161262d172699cf0a5e09b6cdfa5fee7f32c183d

4. The 4.5M ARBX were then dumped
— CertiK Security Leaderboard (@certikorg) January 4, 2022

The funds deposited by users ($10M) were directed to unverified pools via the depositor contract. The hacker then drained all assets from the pools. The depositor address was identified. One of the unverified pools was also identified. The hacker address was also identified by CertiK Security Leaderboard.

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