Ethereum Network Comes Across with Yet Another DOS Attack
Ethereum protocol hit by another DOS attack, the second one in less than a week! Ethereum is definitely heading towards trouble. The promising blockchain-based smart contracts protocol has been facing a lot of issues in the recent days, the latest one being yet another DOS attack. A brief alert about the latest DOS attack was published earlier yesterday on Ethereum’s blog. The alert statement reads, “URGENT ALL MINERS: The network is under attack. …a computational DDoS, i.e. miners and nodes need to spend a very long time processing some blocks. …due to the EXTCODESIZE opcode, which has a....
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