Cardano node upgrade underway following mainnet DDoS attack

A failed DDoS attack on the Cardano blockchain led developers to initiate a node upgrade to enhance security.

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EigenLayer enhances EigenDA security to combat Sybil attacks

With the additional security feature, EigenLayer aims to protect the service it offers while guaranteeing its availability to all clients.

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How DDoS Attacks Have Become the Primary Tool for Political Cyber Warfare

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have emerged as the primary method for conducting political cyber warfare, according to a recent report by NETSCOUT. These attacks involve overwhelming a target website or online service with a flood of traffic, causing it to become inaccessible to legitimate users. The report highlights how DDoS attacks have become [...]

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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 […]

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Solana (SOL) Price Drops as the Network Experiences 7-Hour Outage

Solana’s NFT minting tool, the Candy Machine, experienced a number of DDoS attacks on Saturday.

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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 […]

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Solana (SOL) Faces Third DDoS Attack in 6 Months

Solana faces its third DDoS attack in the past 6 months. The platform network failed to function early this morning.

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The Ethereum-Killer Suffers Another DDoS Attack – is Solana Slowly Losing its Touch?

The Solana Network, famous for processing over 2,000 transactions per second, was seen stumbling along at speeds below 500 on Thursday.

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Crypto Flipsider News – Bitcoin Slumps, Investors Remain Bullish, Polygon Buys Predictable Labs, WhatsApp Pilots Novi Wallet, Coinbase Launches DeFi Yield, DDoS Attacks on Solana, Microsoft Backs Palm NFT

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Solana Announces What Was Really Behind Last Week’s “Frustrating” Outage

Solana Foundation posted a detailed post-mortem explaining what they believe was a denial-of-service attack.  #Altcoin #CRYPTO Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried calls solana’s 17-hour outage sad and frustrating – and says a stablecoin ban would hurt the industry | Currency News | Financial and Business News https://t.co/f3UL2lYEBN — BitcoinPress (@bitcoinpressuk) September 20, 2021 Last week Solana […]

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Near patches Web3 Ping of Death vulnerability that could crash network

Researchers found a vulnerability in NEARs peer-to-peer networking protocol that could have crashed any node, but it was patched before an attacker could discover it.

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Is Bitcoin Crashing Because Of A “Successful” DDOS Attack?

Recent reports suggest that Bitcoin is under a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, forcing prices lower and transaction fees higher. The attack, observers note, is orchestrated through spam inscriptions that are clogging up the network, inconveniencing users. Bitcoin Is Under Attack? The so-called spam transactions via the Bitcoin Ordinals platform have prompted many to speculate that [...]

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Bitcoin Network Overwhelmed by 390,000 Unconfirmed Transactions and Surging Fees

In just under two weeks, the number of unconfirmed transactions on the Bitcoin network has skyrocketed from 134,000 to over 390,000, causing a bottleneck in the mempool. This surge in unconfirmed transactions has resulted in a staggering 343% increase in transaction fees, which have risen from $1.99 per transaction on April 26 to a current [...]

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