{"id":10695,"date":"2024-02-14T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/uniswap-founder-exposes-new-ens-domain-scam\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:48:47","slug":"uniswap-founder-exposes-new-ens-domain-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/uniswap-founder-exposes-new-ens-domain-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniswap Founder Exposes New ENS Domain Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hayden Adams, the creator of the decentralized exchange Uniswap, has highlighted a new attack vector targeting cryptocurrency users through the Ethereum Name Service (ENS).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">first time I&#8217;ve seen this scam, so posting it as a heads up for users and interfaces<\/p>\n<p>someone bought the ens &#8220;[myEthereumAddress].eth&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>so when you paste in my address, the top result in some UIs is an ens match instead of the resolved ENS name<\/p>\n<p>impt for UIs to filter these out <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0cQAL5tQ0T\">pic.twitter.com\/0cQAL5tQ0T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 hayden.eth ? (@haydenzadams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haydenzadams\/status\/1757632516444311937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The entrepreneur discovered that someone purchased an ENS domain resembling his Ethereum address 0x11E4857Bb9993a50c685A79AFad4E6F65D518DDa.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, in some interfaces, the preferred option when searching is the name 0x11E4857Bb9993a50c685A79AFad4E6F65D518DDa.eth, which is linked to a completely different wallet.<\/p>\n<p>ENS domains allow for the use of easily readable addresses instead of lengthy numbers. For instance, Hayden&#8217;s is hayden.eth, while Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin&#8217;s is vitalik.eth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">cc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicksdjohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nicksdjohnson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spencecoin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@spencecoin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>fun fact: this scam vector is why we originally broke registrations &#038; resolutions for all 0x\u2026 names in the early MEW days (in addition to rugging a slew of vanilla js hex handling bugs\/vulns)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tay ? (@tayvano_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tayvano_\/status\/1757655888465469463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Fun fact: this potential scam vector is why we originally closed registration and resolutions for all 0x addresses back in the early days of <span data-descr=\"MyEtherWallet\" class=\"old_tooltip\">MEW<\/span>,&#8221; commented Taylor Monahan from MetaMask, who was previously part of the MyEtherWallet team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lead ENS developer Nick Johnson from the Ethereum Foundation noted that interfaces should not auto-complete address fields as it is &#8220;far too dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IMO, interfaces shouldn&#8217;t autocomplete names at all; it&#8217;s far too dangerous. I think we advise against it in our UX guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 nick.eth (@nicksdjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicksdjohnson\/status\/1757657430521942028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I think we advise against it in our <span data-descr=\"user interface\" class=\"old_tooltip\">UX<\/span> guidelines,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in July 2023, attackers gained control of Adams&#8217; Twitter account to post phishing links related to Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayden Adams, the creator of the decentralized exchange Uniswap, has highlighted a new attack vector targeting cryptocurrency users through the Ethereum Name Service (ENS). first time I&#8217;ve seen this scam, so posting it as a heads up for users and interfaces someone bought the ens &#8220;[myEthereumAddress].eth&#8221; so when you paste in my address, the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1385,1246],"class_list":["post-10695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-ethereum-name-service","tag-scammers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"62","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}