July 23, 2026·Bearish·critical issue

VerusCoin Exploited for $7.5M in Validation Flaw

VerusCoin suffered a ~$7.5 million exploit due to a failure to validate CCE economic backing, per a SlowMist threat intelligence alert. The attack differs from a previous exploit by hash-binding the validated proof to the executed transfer payload.

Detected & updated continuously · Source: Nebula

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@SlowMist_Team

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🚨 SlowMist TI Alert 🚨 💸 @VerusCoin Loss: ~$7.5M ⚠️ Unlike the prior 0x6990…b321 exploit, which decoupled the validated proof from the executed transfer payload, this attack hash-bound the transfers to the CCE but failed to validate the CCE’s economic backing; both exploit