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Cardano node upgrade underway following mainnet DDoS attack

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Arijit Sarkar12 hours agoCardano node upgrade underway following mainnet DDoS attackA failed DDoS attack on the Cardano blockchain led developers to initiate a node upgrade to enhance security.2204 Total views2 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsOwn this piece of crypto historyCollect this article as NFTJoin us on social networksA failed spam attack on the Cardano blockchain led developers to work on a node upgrade that could deter future distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of a similar nature.


On June 25, the Cardano network experienced a DDoS attack starting at block 10,487,530. Raul Antonio, chief technology officer of Fluid Tokens, explained that the attack aimed to manipulate the Cardano blockchain into charging lower fees for high-value transactions.


Additionally, if successful, the attacker could steal staked Cardano (ADA) tokens from the network.Source:Raul AntonioIntent behind Cardano DDoS attack


While the attack was underway, Philip Disarro, the founder and CEO of Anastasia Labs, explained:“The idea behind this attack is to take advantage of the fact that the size of reference scripts currently does not impact the transaction fee, but it does impact the work that validators have to do to process the transaction.”


Disarro, along with several other Cardano developers, outsmarted the attacker into claiming back the stolen ADA tokens and stopping the DDoS attack.Source:Philip Disarro


The attacker eventually halted the DDoS attack and failed to move any stolen funds. Disarro added:“Thanks for the free money moron. Truly iconic that the attacker who presumably wanted to damage the ecosystem actually ended up donating to the open-source smart contract development work we do [...]”


Read Cointelegraph’s crypto guide to learn more about how DDoS attacks work on blockchains.Fortifying the Cardano blockchain


Disarro claimed that there were other ways to stop the attack, but his method was the fastest. “If you rush to deploy something to production without thorough testing and a high-quality, independent audit, you might wind up losing a lot of money to vulnerabilities just like the attacker did,” he added.Source:Intersect


Intersect, a member-based organization for the Cardano ecosystem, later confirmed the attack while thanking the developer community for a swift resolution against the DDoS attack.


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While the Cardano network was not compromised and performed normally, “The network has experienced a higher load than normal and some stake pool operators (SPOs) have been negatively affected due to an intensification in block height battles,” Intersect explained.“Once a solution has been properly tested and deployed, we will share the new node version for SPOs to upgrade to.”


The Intersect task force is collaborating to identify and test a solution to further minimize the impact of such spam attacks.


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