How to Install / Upgrade: Hackers steal $23.7 million in crypto from Ostium in off-chain attack
By Dillip Chowdary • Jul 21, 2026 • Source: BleepingComputer
The Ostium trading platform announced a breach where an attacker compromised the off-chain infrastructure used to feed prices into the protocol. As a result of this compromised price feed, the attacker stole $23.75 million from the liquidity provider vault.
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No version numbers, dates, or specific shell commands were provided in the announcement for installing or upgrading the platform components. Upgrading requires replacing or patching the compromised off-chain price feeding infrastructure and updating the protocol liquidity provider vault integrations.
A key gotcha is that compromised off-chain price infrastructure directly jeopardizes funds stored in the liquidity provider vault. Verification involves auditing off-chain price feed inputs and ensuring the infrastructure feeding prices into the protocol functions securely without unauthorized tampering.
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