MONDAY, JULY 27, 2026 48° E  /  GLOBAL TECH · SUMMARISED SUBSCRIBE
AI, business, devices, policy — global tech, summarised every 30 minutes.
Security · 1h ago

Three Sui DeFi Exploits Share One Root Cause: Flawed Math Checks

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Cetus lost $223M to a shift overflow bug, Aftermath Finance lost $1.14M to a missing lower bound check, and Bucket Protocol has an unpatched decimal scaling flaw. All three passed audits but share the same root cause: incomplete validation in arithmetic operations. The article argues that auditors under time pressure miss boundary conditions that attackers exploit.

Meridian48 take
The pattern of 'looks fine' math bugs costing millions underscores the need for formal verification and linting tools in DeFi development.
Read the full reporting
Three Sui Exploits, One Disease — Why "The Math Looked Fine" Keeps Costing Hundreds of Millions →
DEV Community
sui-defismart-contract-bugs
More security briefs
Go deeper on security
AllAIStartupsBusinessDevicesPolicySecurityDev ToolsPakistan