Lodestar Suffers $6M Flash Loan Attack

A lending protocol in the Arbitrum ecosystem, Lodestar Finance has fallen victim to a flash loan attack. On December 10, a malicious actor was able to cart off about $5.8M in loot from the platform. Lodestar has since posted a Twitter thread explaining how the culprit was able to do so. Hacker Tweaks Exchange Rate, Withdraws Liquidity Per the post, the attacker’s approach was to manipulate the swap rate of the network’s plvGLP contract. The culprit set the rate at…