The Cardano blockchain successfully thwarted a DDoS attack without significantly impacting the network. According to reports, the attackers intended to hinder user access by overwhelming the network with spam transactions. Although the attack on the Cardano network did not compromise any staked ADA or blockchain funds, it did expose how fundamental checks were sacrificed, allowing […]
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Tether Under Mass DDoS Siege; More Details
Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin had a major scare when CTO Paolo Ardoino confirmed that its website Tether_to was under a massive DDoS attack. “They tried already once. On a normal day, we have around 2k reqs/5min The attack brought us to 8M reqs/5min”, he wrote. Ardoino further informed that the attack has been mitigated by […]
Multiple DDoS Attacks Target Web3 Lifestyle App STEPN
A massive distributed denial of service or DDoS zeroed in on a Solana-based lifestyle app that encourages users to “move-to-earn” STEPN, this weekend. Notifying the same via Twitter, the platform announced that once recovery is complete, updates would be announced soon. In the series of tweets, the platform urged users to pause during the maintenance […]
NFT marketplace LooksRare site restored after a brief DDoS attack
Newly launched Nft marketplace LooksRare suffered a distributed denial of service or DDoS attack briefly in the late hours of Jan 29, 2022. Following this, the backend team responded in a short time, and within the minutes, the website was restored back again with users applauding the quick response. Some even threw a jibe at […]
Iconic Bitcoin.org website starts functioning again after DDoS attack
Troubles for Bitcoin.org are far from over. The website, which happens to be one of the oldest Bitcoin sites designed specifically for educational purposes, has been hit with a denial-of-service attack [DDoS] attack. This was reported by the pseudonymous webmaster of Bitcoin.org, ‘Cøbra’ who tweeted, “Bitcoin.org getting hit with an absolutely massive DDoS attack and […]
Cryptocurrency Exchange Bitrue Hit by a DDoS Attack
The digital asset management platform, Bitrue suffered a distributed denial-of-service [DDoS] attack on 20th September. This led to the web services on the platform being unavailable. Bitrue further revealed that a few app functions that rely on web services were also affected. Its official tweet read, All Bitrue functions should now be working correctly. There […]