How an Attacker Drained $128M from Balancer Through Rounding Error Exploitation

By: Dikla Barda, Roaman Zaikin & Oded Vanunu  On November 3, 2025, Check Point Research’s blockchain monitoring systems detected a sophisticated exploit targeting Balancer V2’s ComposableStablePool contracts. The attacker exploited arithmetic precision loss in pool invariant calculations to drain $128.64 million across six blockchain networks in under 30 minutes. The attack leveraged a rounding error…

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A 480-million-year-old parasite still infects oysters today

A surprising new study has revealed that a parasite still troubling modern oysters first began infecting shell-dwelling sea creatures hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs vanished. Researchers reporting in iScience used high-resolution 3D imaging to examine 480-million-year-old fossil shells from Morocco, a site famous for its exceptionally preserved marine life. The scans uncovered…

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Dark matter may be lighting up the heart of the Milky Way

New findings suggest that dark matter could once again be the missing piece in one of astronomy’s longest-running puzzles: the strange excess of gamma rays glowing from the Milky Way’s core. By recreating the galaxy’s turbulent early life and the massive collisions that shaped it, scientists discovered that dark matter near the center may be…

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Five easy food swaps to improve your gut health

Dr XandMorning Live doctor BBC and Getty Dr Xand and people eating popcorn Scroll through social media or glance at the supermarket shelves and you’ll see endless products claiming to improve your gut health. It seems everyone’s talking about looking after their microbiome – the trillions of tiny organisms living in our digestive system –…

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