According to PANews, Aftermath Finance, a perpetual futures platform on the Sui blockchain, lost over $1.14 million in an attack on April 29. GoPlus analysis revealed that attackers exploited a symbol mismatch vulnerability in the calculate_taker_fees function by stealing ADMIN privileges through the add_integrator_config function to repeatedly extract tokens.
Afthermath Finance confirmed the total loss and stated that all users will receive full compensation with support from Mysten Labs and the Sui Foundation. The team emphasized this is not a Move contract language security issue.
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