What is an eclipse attack?
Eclipse attacks are a sort of cyberattack in which an attacker creates a fake environment around a single node or user, allowing the attacker to manipulate the node into doing a malicious action. What can blockchain developers learn from eclipse attacks?Developers can familiarize themselves with the vulnerabilities in Bitcoin nodes that can be exploited to replace legitimate peer addresses with their own.Technically, when the node selects IP addresses from the tried bucket with timestamps, it increases the probability of the attacker getting selected. This is true even if the attacker only....
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The internet infrastructure and risk-mitigating company, Cloudflare Inc., reportedly prevented the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this month, calling it the most volumetric attack the company has recorded to date. The attack in question was aimed at a crypto platform. The number of requests per second (rps) of the current DDoS attack […]
The recent DDoS attack faced by Coinsecure led to a temporary disruption of services. Cryptocurrency platforms across the world are constantly under the threat of various forms of cyberattacks. While the attackers’ intentions may be several, they are generally of no good. Yesterday, Coinsecure — a leading Indian Bitcoin trading and blockchain services company became a target of one such attack. According to the company’s communication to its customers, the platform came under a DDoS attack which forced them to disable most of its services for few hours. The attack on Coinsecure seems to be....