Attacker drains $18M USDC from Ostium's vault using future-dated oracle reports and registered PriceUpKeep forwarder
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Promote with Leviathan NewsAn attacker used Ostium's registered PriceUpKeep forwarder and future-dated authorized oracle reports to fabricate profitable trades, draining roughly $18M USDC from its Arbitrum vault. Because the reports arrived through Ostium's authorized price pipeline, the vault accepted fake PnL as valid and paid it out in USDC.
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