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Tendril exploit drains roughly $555K in USDT after sell hook flaw
An attacker abused a bug in the TENDRIL token's sell logic to pull nearly all USDT from its PancakeSwap V2 pool on BNB Chain Thu 5 Nov 2026 · 02:31 EST · 3 min read In Crypto Share A small token on BNB Chain just learned an expensive lesson about custom code. A flaw in TENDRIL’s sell hook let an attacker withdraw nearly all of the USDT backing the token, producing a net loss of about $555,000. The exploit hit the TENDRIL/USDT liquidity pool on PancakeSwap V2 on November 5, 2026. How the TENDRIL attack worked The weak point was...
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