Ostium suffers $18 million exploit as oracle attack wave continues to hit DeFi
Affected assets and topics
DEFI
PROFIT
REPORT
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Neutral
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Evidence
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CoinDesk
Claim
Ostium suffers $18 million exploit as oracle attack wave continues to hit DeFi
AI inference
Bullish · 70%
Generated
2026-07-15 15:27
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- Provider tag
- free-analysis-rule-based-analysis
- Analysis version
- free-analysis-rule-based-analysis
- Article id
- 107662
Original source
A hacker used Ostium's own price-reporting infrastructure against the protocol, submitting falsified future-dated oracle data to manufacture fake trading profits and trigger an $18 million payout.
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Original article published by CoinDesk on July 15, 2026. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.
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