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BlockThreat Week 43: Oracle Price Exploit and Multisig Security Focus

BlockThreat’s Week 43 newsletter reports a relatively quiet week (<$1M losses) and covers research on price oracle exploits, off-chain and multisig security, and tooling updates across Ethereum and Solana ecosystems. Premium section tracks attacker probing of older contracts.

🎯CORTEX Protocol Intelligence Assessment

Business Impact: DeFi protocols face ongoing risk from oracle manipulation and key compromise. Technical Context: Monitoring of legacy smart contracts and multi-chain probing indicates opportunistic exploitation of outdated code paths.

Strategic Intelligence Guidance

  • Audit price oracles and circuit breakers across DeFi integrations
  • Rotate keys and apply multisig practices with hardware wallets
  • Monitor on-chain analytics for anomalous contract interactions
  • Harden RPC endpoints and rate-limit write operations

Threats

Price Oracle Manipulation

Targets

DeFiSmart Contracts

Impact

Data Volume:N/A
Financial:$147,000 (example cited)
Intelligence Source: BlockThreat - Week 43, 2025 | Oct 28, 2025