NEAR Intents Hacker Given 48 Hours to Return $3.8M

NEAR Intents has identified the attacker behind a $3.8 million exploit and is giving them 48 hours to return the stolen funds.

A bug in the Omni deposit and withdrawal infrastructure was exploited, causing the loss, which a preliminary assessment put at approximately $3.8 million.

Illia Polosukhin, a NEAR co-founder, added that the exploit was isolated to USDT on BSC, and that SHIELD, the platform's AI security layer, flagged outlier behavior and triggered the pause.

The contract vulnerability was patched within an hour of detection, and NEAR Intents and near.com are back online.