AFX Trade and Verus Bridges Drained for $31.6M in 7 Hours
- Bridge
- Security
Attackers compromised validator signing on the AFX Trade bridge and drained $24.15M in USDC from Arbitrum reserves before bridging to Ethereum. Hours later the Verus Ethereum bridge lost another $7.54M in ETH, tBTC and stablecoins via an unbacked import path. Blockaid and PeckShield posted real-time alerts that spread rapidly across CT.
Incident Details
- Type
- BRIDGE HACK
- Funds Lost
- $31.7M
- Status
- Ongoing
Stolen assets consolidated in single wallets; protocols paused bridges