DAO Wars: Hacker Counter-Attacks and Infiltrates the Robin Hood DAOs

DAO Wars: Hacker Counter-Attacks and Infiltrates the Robin Hood DAOs

The battle to recover the 14 million stolen Ether continues, today the hacker responded to the 'Robin Hood' attack with another stratagem: the malicious attacker managed to infiltrate the child DAO controlled by developers and researchers of the Ethereum community. The DAO Token Holders received bad news today, after a team lead by ex-DAO curators, Slock.it employees, researchers and Ethereum foundation members managed to launch a counter-attack -known as the Robin Hood attack-. The preemptive strike was intended to secure the remaining The preemptive strike was intended to secure the....


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