Symbiosis says it is blocking funds related to Binance security incident from being transferred through its protocol
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Symbiosis said someone attempted to transfer funds related to the Binance security incident through its protocol, and that the team is blocking the transfers and fixing vulnerabilities in its mechanisms.
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Symbiosis: Binance hacker attempted to transfer funds through the protocol; contacting Binance
PANews November 1 reported that the cross-chain protocol Symbiosis posted on X saying it had discovered an attempt to transfer funds related to Binance’s recent security incident through Symbiosis. The team is making every effort to stop the transfers and has contacted Binance. Symbiosis said that, as a decentralized protocol, its screening mechanisms primarily target normal fund flows and have difficulty tracking rapid and complex transfer activity. Some mechanisms contain vulnerabilities, which are currently being fixed one by one. Users whose funds are pending or have been mistakenly returned can contact the team for assistance. Earlier BlockSec analysis showed that some stolen TRX funds were transferred cross-chain to Ethereum through channels including Symbiosis.
Symbiosis said on X that it had discovered an attempt to transfer funds related to Binance’s recent security incident through Symbiosis.
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Symbiosis said its team is making every effort to block the related transfers and has contacted Binance.
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Symbiosis said its screening mechanisms primarily target normal fund flows and have difficulty tracking rapid and complex transfer activity.
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Symbiosis acknowledged that some mechanisms contain vulnerabilities and said they are currently being fixed one by one.
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Symbiosis said users whose funds are pending or have been mistakenly returned can contact the team for assistance.
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The report cited earlier analysis by BlockSec as saying that some stolen TRX funds were transferred cross-chain to Ethereum through channels including Symbiosis.
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Cross-chain protocols are used to transfer assets between different blockchains. In this report, Symbiosis said it had detected an attempted transfer of funds related to the Binance security incident, but that its existing screening mechanisms had difficulty promptly identifying rapid and complex fund paths. The team is therefore blocking the transfers and fixing the vulnerabilities.
Why it matters to readers
If funds related to a security incident can be transferred rapidly with the help of a cross-chain protocol, tracking and blocking the flow of funds will become more difficult; mechanism vulnerabilities may also affect users currently using the protocol.
Users of Symbiosis should monitor their transaction status. If funds remain pending for an extended period or are mistakenly returned, they can contact the team for assistance as described in the report.
Risks and unknowns
The report did not provide relevant on-chain transaction addresses, transaction details, or the scale of the funds involved.
Binance did not independently confirm the transfer attempt or the outcome of the response in this article.
It remains unclear whether the related funds have been successfully blocked, frozen, or recovered.
It remains unclear what the specific scope of the mechanism vulnerabilities is, how far remediation has progressed, and whether more users are affected.
Partially stolen, according to BlockSec TRX The cross-chain path lacks on-chain details that can be verified within this article.
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