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ForkLog 11 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 61 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 21 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 71 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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ForkLog 31 22.01.2024

Nethermind Resolves Critical Bug in Ethereum Client

The development firm Nethermind has resolved a critical bug in the Ethereum execution client that caused failures during block processing by validators. According to the company’s co-technical director, Daniel Cadel, the consensus bug affected software versions from 1.23 to 1.25. All node operators are advised to upgrade to release 1.25.2. We have the fix! Please […]

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ForkLog 16 26.12.2023

zkSync Era team explains cause of network outage

Block processing halted on December 25 by a Layer-2 decision, due to an error in calculating the state update, according to developers.

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ForkLog 18 25.12.2023

zkSync Era Protocol Halts Block Production

Around 8:00 Kyiv time (9:00 MSK), the L2-solution zkSync Era halted block production at height #22 364 805 due to an unforeseen error.

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ForkLog 19.12.2023

OKX fixes vulnerability in iOS wallet app

The OKX team fixed the vulnerability affecting the iOS wallet app.

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ForkLog 18 19.12.2023

Zilliqa team resolves network outage

The developers of the Zilliqa blockchain platform have restored the network after it stopped processing blocks for more than half a day.

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ForkLog 19 16.12.2023

Arbitrum Team Restores Network After Outage

On Friday, December 15, the Arbitrum One network was offline from 18:29 to 19:57 due to a significant surge in network traffic. As of writing, it is operating without interruptions.

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ForkLog 29 13.12.2023

Russian hackers from ‘Solntsepek’ claim responsibility for Kyivstar attack

On December 13, the Russian hacker group 'Solntsepek' claimed responsibility for the attack on the Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar.

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ForkLog 20 12.12.2023

Hackers attack Kyivstar network; outage will affect some ATMs

A massive outage at Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, that occurred on the morning of December 12, is linked to a hacking attack.

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