Ethereum Foundation: AI found real protocol bugs, but humans still lead
The Foundation is publishing a security report that treats AI as an audit accelerant, not a replacement for formal verification and human reviewers.
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The Foundation is publishing a security report that treats AI as an audit accelerant, not a replacement for formal verification and human reviewers.
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A single verifier-side price bug let an attacker mint $9M of unbacked borrowing power on Hedera's largest lending market.
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The attacker used a signature-verification bug in Supra's oracle to spoof SAUCE prices, borrow against phantom collateral, and drain roughly $9.05M before the protocol was paused.
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