Ethereum DOS Attacked as Community Prepares for Ethereum DevCon 2
The Ethereum platform came under DOS attack yesterday, hours before the launch of Ethereum DevCon 2 conference in Shanghai. The Ethereum community had a small scare yesterday after a bug was discovered on the platform. The bug affecting geth nodes built on Go Programming Language was reported as a security alert of high severity on Ethereum blog earlier yesterday. The bug in Ethereum protocol resulted in the crash of geth nodes following memory issues. The issue surfaced hours before the launch of Ethereum DevCon 2 in Shanghai. The issue was determined to be a DOS attack on the platform,....
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