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title: "Aave Faces $200 Million Bad Debt Following rsETH Bridge Exploit"
type: "News"
locale: "en"
url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/285849907.md"
description: "Aave has incurred approximately $200 million in bad debt due to an exploit involving the rsETH bridge, where attackers forged around 116,500 rsETH as collateral for borrowing. The attack, linked to the Lazarus group, was facilitated by poisoned nodes that provided false data. In April, exploits resulted in over $635 million in losses across 28 incidents, totaling $16.5 billion in cumulative hack losses. In response, LayerZero has banned 1-of-1 verifier configurations across its protocol."
datetime: "2026-05-10T19:05:06.000Z"
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# Aave Faces $200 Million Bad Debt Following rsETH Bridge Exploit

A recent exploit involving the rsETH bridge has resulted in approximately $200 million in bad debt for Aave. Attackers managed to forge around 116,500 rsETH and used it as collateral for borrowing. According to NS3.AI, Chainalysis has preliminarily linked the April 18 attack to the Lazarus group. Aave's incident report revealed that a forged bridge message was accepted due to poisoned nodes providing false data into a 1-of-1 DVN setup. DefiLlama reported that losses from exploits in April amounted to over $635 million across 28 incidents, with cumulative hack losses reaching $16.5 billion. In response, LayerZero has banned 1-of-1 verifier configurations across its protocol.

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