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ForkLog 14 16.04.2024

Trust Wallet Developers Warn of iOS Vulnerability

The team behind Binance-owned Trust Wallet has alerted iOS users to a zero-day exploit targeting the iMessage service. 1/2: ⚠️ Alert for iOS users: We have credible intel regarding a high-risk zero-day exploit targeting iMessage on the Dark Web. This can infiltrate your iPhone without clicking any link. High-value targets are likely. Each use raises […]

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ForkLog 25 08.04.2024

dYdX Developers Halt Network Following Post-Update Glitch

On April 8, around 09:00 (Kyiv/MSK), the dYdX blockchain ceased operations and had not produced blocks for over seven hours at the time of writing. dYdX blocks. Data: Mintscan. On April 7, developers announced the start of scheduled technical work that “could potentially disrupt” network functionality. According to the log, the implementation of update v4.0.0 […]

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ForkLog 19 05.04.2024

StarkNet Team Confirms Blockchain Disruption

On April 5, the Ethereum Layer 2 network StarkNet ceased producing new blocks for approximately four hours. According to Starkscan, the pause occurred between blocks #630,028 and #630,029. Source: Starkscan. At the time of writing, the StarkNet status page did not mention the incident. The latest entries refer to March 13, when the blockchain slowed […]

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ForkLog 14 02.04.2024

Analyst Demands $1 Million for Revealing Vulnerability in USDe Stablecoin

On-chain investigator TardFiWhale has raised concerns over structural weaknesses in the “synthetic stablecoin” USDe, developed on Ethereum by the Ethena Labs team. They’re paying me off to stop shitposting Ethena; how they’re launching a bug bounty program AFTER launching their token allowing insiders to cash out from their shard campaign participation and hedge out with […]

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ForkLog 17 25.03.2024

Ripple Team Warns of AMM Pool Disruption

A technical error has been identified in several of Ripple’s automatic market maker (AMM) pools, leading to incorrect transaction execution. We’ve identified a discrepancy in a few AMM pools, in which transactions are not executing as intended. Our engineering team is working to resolve the issue alongside community participants. Out of an abundance of caution, […]

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ForkLog 25 25.03.2024

Polygon zkEVM Resumes Operations After Outage

On March 23, the Ethereum Layer 2 network Polygon zkEVM experienced a disruption, causing the blockchain, launched about a year ago, to halt for over 10 hours. Polygon zkEVM Mainnnet Beta faced an issue with its sequencer due to an L1 reorg. We are working on fully resolving the issue and will follow up with […]

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ForkLog 18 05.03.2024

Outage Affects Facebook, Instagram, and Other Social Media Platforms

On March 5, users of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok, and other messaging and social media platforms reported difficulties accessing the applications. Source: Downdetector. The issue affected residents of Russia, Ukraine, major cities in the United States, and Asia. Specifically, Facebook logged users out and denied account access, citing allegedly incorrect passwords. Instagram’s feed failed […]

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ForkLog 9 05.03.2024

Coinbase Resolves Another Platform Glitch

The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has resolved an issue that caused delays on the platform and periodically reset user balances to zero. We have issued a fix which remediated the display issue impacting customer account balances and latency across https://t.co/ohqDivlp6Y. We appreciate your patience. https://t.co/7gsVeIvYMl — Coinbase Support (@CoinbaseSupport) March 4, 2024 On March 2, in […]

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ForkLog 10 29.02.2024

Seneca Protocol Vulnerability Results in Theft of 1900 ETH

The smart contract of the Seneca omnichain protocol on Ethereum was breached by hackers, resulting in the loss of over 1900 ETH (~$6.5 million), according to analysts at Beosin. ?@SenecaUSD exploited for 1,900 $ETH (worth ~$6.5M). The attacker used constructed calldata parameters to call transferfrom and transfer tokens that were approved to the project’s contracts […]

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ForkLog 58 29.02.2024

Coinbase Resolves ‘Zero Balance’ Glitch

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has rectified a technical glitch that caused users’ account balances to disappear. Apps are now recovering. We had modeled a ~10x surge in traffic and load tested it. This exceeded that number. It’s expensive to keep services over-provisioned, but we’ll need to keep working on auto-scaling solutions, and killing any remaining bottlenecks. […]

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ForkLog 19 23.02.2024

Avalanche Network Experiences Disruption

On February 23, block production in the Avalanche ecosystem was halted. The main C-Chain network stopped processing transactions at 11:13 UTC (+3 hours MSK, +2 hours Kyiv). Source: Avascan. February 23, 2024 | 19:39Update: The network has resumed operations. Source: Avascan. This was confirmed by Sekniqi, who noted that he is monitoring the situation. pic.twitter.com/l4npd1ZXlF […]

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ForkLog 62 15.02.2024

Vulnerability Found in Trust Wallet iOS App

The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology is investigating a vulnerability in the Trust Wallet app for iOS, owned by Binance. According to the description, the wallet software incorrectly uses the trezor-crypto library. As a result, the device’s time is the sole source of entropy for generating mnemonic phrases. This bug opens the […]

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