A MEV bot front-runs a ~$7.81M rsETH exploit on Ethereum.

Rickler Feed (@rickler_feed), Sep 15, 2026, 06:47 UTC

A MEV bot front-runs a ~$7.81M rsETH exploit on Ethereum. MEV bot "yoink" front-ran an attacker's ~$7.81M exploit on whale 0x40E9's leveraged rsETH held in a Gnosis Safe, capturing the full amount after the malicious tx entered the mempool. Root cause was a whitelisted Safe module exposing an ungated recipe entrypoint that passed fully caller-controlled calldata into execTransactionFromModuleReturnData via DELEGATECALL, enabling arbitrary code execution in the Safe's context. TX: etherscan.io/tx/0x0e7680b06 Victim (whale 0x40E9): etherscan.io/address/0x40e9 Original exploiter: etherscan.io…

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