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Kelp DAO · Ethereum · $292,000,000

Kelp DAO — $292M drained via forged LayerZero messages after RPC node compromise and coordinated DDoS

Lazarus Group compromised LayerZero's internal RPC nodes, orchestrated a simultaneous DDoS on third-party nodes, and exploited Kelp's single-verifier bridge configuration to release 116,500 rsETH against a burn that never happened.

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Drift Protocol · Solana · $285,000,000

Drift Protocol — $285M drained after a six-month DPRK social engineering operation on Solana

North Korean operatives spent six months posing as a quant trading firm, obtained pre-signed admin transactions via Solana's durable nonces, deployed a fake token with a rigged oracle, and drained 50% of Drift's TVL in under two hours.

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Hyperliquid · Hyperliquid L1 · $4,900,000

Hyperliquid — $4.9M HLP vault bad debt from POPCAT price manipulation across 19 wallets

An attacker spent $3M to inflict $4.9M in bad debt on Hyperliquid's liquidity vault by artificially pumping POPCAT with coordinated leveraged longs across 19 addresses, then crashing the price to trigger a liquidation cascade the protocol had to absorb.

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