Ethervista 'unconsciously hacked' hundreds of times by bot
Ethervista, an Ethereum alternative to Solana’s Pump.fun platform, has reportedly been “unconsciously hacked” hundreds of times over the past couple of days by a bot unaware of its actions. That’s according to PhD student and blockchain security specialist Chaofan Shou, who claimed yesterday that his bot exploited Ethervista by unknowingly following the instructions of another attacker. Shou told Protos it was a “general backrun bot” that copies other transactions and applies it in the next few blocks. He said that an initial attacker manually hacked Ethervista by exploiting an “integer overflow in the router contract to steal all the fee in it.” Because of this, Shou’s bot copied the transaction and performed the hacker’s malicious transaction over and over again . He said the bot was not designed for Ethervista and that, “both the bot and us did not know we are hacking Ethervista.” Our bot unconsciously hacked @ethervista hundreds of times over the last two d...
