Indexed Finance thwarts hijackers, set to compensate 2021 hack victims

cointelegraph.com:

Indexed Finance, an Ethereum-based project that suffered a $16 million hack in 2021, has successfully thwarted two hijacking attempts. Control of the project’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) will be returned to its founders, who aim to allocate the remaining treasury to victims of the 2021 hack.

In a thread on X (formerly Twitter), Laurence Day, a former core contributor, detailed the efforts of the Indexed community in overcoming two hijacking attempts on the remaining treasury of the Indexed DAO. Both attackers acquired significant amounts of the protocol’s NDX token and aimed to take control of the DAO’s approximately $120,000 in digital asset holdings through malicious proposals.

The initial proposal, lacking a title or description in an apparent effort to avoid detection, was thwarted as Day and fellow community members mobilized the Indexed DAO for votes against it. The attacker’s proposal neared approval within an hour, but sufficient “No” votes were cast to prevent its passage.

Okay so here's what just happened to the Indexed DAO

The wreckage can be seen in the Tally panel below

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Nonetheless, as the Indexed team had to openly coordinate votes against the proposal, Day anticipated the possibility of a copycat attack. Additionally, as Day detailed in his thread, an additional vulnerability could jeopardize funds beyond the DAO’s treasury if the DAO ends up in unfriendly control.

To mitigate the threat of a subsequent attack, the Indexed DAO approved a 'poison pill' proposal, granting them the authority to burn the remaining treasury funds if deemed necessary to deter potential attackers.

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