Another DeFi Exploit: Perp DEX Ostium Loses $18 Million in Oracle Attack

Hackers manipulated Ostium's price feed by compromising an oracle signer key, allowing them to drain roughly $18 million from the Arbitrum-based perpetuals exchange.

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