Curve Finance’s Domain Hijack Drama: Hackers, Wallet-Drainers, and Drama Queens—Again!

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Honestly, had to double-check the calendar to make sure it wasn’t April Fool’s, but no—Curve Finance apparently just can’t catch a break. In the latest episode of “As the Blockchain Turns,” a hacker’s flouncy fingers hijacked Curve Finance’s DNS, rerouting innocent DeFi enthusiasts straight to the digital equivalent of a waterfall with “Wipe Your Wallets Here” written in Comic Sans. 😳

This is—brace yourself—the second snafu in a week, which is a pace usually reserved for toddlers and politicians. The Curve crew scrambled to X (look at them, all hip and “post-Twitter”) to belt out: “curve.fi DNS might be hijacked. Don’t interact!” Trust me, if you like your funds un-drained, following this advice comes highly recommended.

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Don’t panic (well, not until you check your wallet). Curve helpfully pointed out that “Password is secure,” and their two-factor authentication was set up sometime before dinosaurs. Still, contacting the registrar because, presumably, carrier pigeons weren’t available.

If you’re wondering, yes, the smart contracts are still behaving themselves. But the domain could send you to a shady corner of the internet where your ether will quietly elope with some mysterious stranger. Curve is, naturally, “investigating and working on recovering access,” and claims there’s “no sign of a compromise on our side”—which, let’s be honest, is crypto speak for “not it, wasn’t me!”

Oh, and this isn’t Curve’s first rodeo. Flashback to August 2022: similar hijinks, as attackers cloned their site and sent users down the phishing chute. Users innocently clicked and, poof, their crypto was gone, likely spent on overpriced avocado toast or NFTs of cartoon possums.

Meanwhile, the journalistic titans at CryptoMoon are on it, probably firing off emails with subject lines like “Are You Panicking Yet?”

Curve Finance potential front-end attack

Even Blockaid, a security firm with a name straight out of a 90’s action film, piped up: they saw sketchy activity on Curve’s site. Their advice? Don’t touch anything! Resist the urge to click, tap, or otherwise digitally fidget until the all-clear is sounded.

Front-end attacks target user-facing bits—the buttons, the forms, the things you’re so tempted to click while asking, “What could go wrong?” Spoiler: your funds might vanish faster than your motivation on a Monday morning.

Blockaid practically begged: “Please refrain from signing transactions and avoid interactions with the DApp until the issue is resolved.” Fingers crossed they can duct tape things back together soon. Expect more updates—probably just after you’ve stopped refreshing your feed obsessively.

Second attack in a week

Just in case Curve Finance hadn’t maxed out their bad luck quota, their official X account got hijacked only days earlier. According to their PR spin, “incident was limited strictly to the X account.” No major disasters, no compromised funds, just your garden-variety social media headache.

To their credit, they snatched back their X account in record time. Root cause? Still missing, but someone probably needs a time-out from the internet.

Curve, by the way, is not alone in this. Seems 2025 is the Year of the High-Profile Hijacks: Tron DAO got its X account nabbed, and for extra British flavor, a UK MP had her social media commandeered to flog some scam token. Cheers and pip pip to decentralized drama.

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2025-05-13 03:39