BONK faces $20 million treasury drain after attacker spends $4 million to pass malicious proposal
An attacker drained $20 million from the BONK DAO treasury by purchasing enough tokens to force a malicious governance proposal through a vote. The exploit leveraged the DAO's automated execution rules, highlighting a critical vulnerability where the cost of acquiring a voting majority was significantly lower than the treasury's value.
BONK DAO was drained of $20 million late Monday, the culmination of a week-long scheme in which an opportunistic attacker spent about $4.4 million buying up the project's bonk tokens to force through a vote. Every step was a legitimate transaction — such as the buying, the vote, the payout — and together they carried out a theft.
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