{"id":2516,"date":"2016-06-22T00:59:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.media\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2016-06-22T09:28:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T06:28:12","slug":"the-counter-attack-on-the-dao-quickly-drains-its-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/the-counter-attack-on-the-dao-quickly-drains-its-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Counter-Attack on The DAO Quickly Drains Its Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A white hat attack on The DAO led by Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation has been launched to protect its funds.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h.88g84lk7hqxv\">The Attacker will strike again!<\/h3>\n<p>As the recursive call vulnerability of The DAO&#8217;s contract has not been fixed, the attackers will inevitably repeat their attacks. Under this assumption the Ethereum developers started a new &#8220;counter-attack&#8221; against The DAO \u00c2\u00a0at fast pace.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet about that has been published by Chief Designer of Mist and one of the project&#8217;s Curators, Alex Van de Sande:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DAO IS BEING SECURELY DRAINED. DO NOT PANIC.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) (@avsa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avsa\/status\/745313647514226688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, as the original DAO&#8217;s address still has more than $4m worth of ether on it, the main white hat attack&#8217;s address has already amassed about $89m worth of ether.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2518\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2518\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2518\" class=\"wp-image-2518 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao1.png\" alt=\"The DAO contract's balance, Etherscan\" width=\"587\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao1.png 587w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao1-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao1-470x188.png 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The DAO contract&#8217;s balance, Etherscan<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2519\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao2.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2519\" class=\"wp-image-2519 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao2.png\" alt=\"The Counter-Attack's main address, Etherscan\" width=\"601\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao2.png 601w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao2-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao2-470x180.png 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Counter-Attack&#8217;s main address, Etherscan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The information of the counter-attack has been also confirmed by Stephan Tual of Slock.it team.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephantual\/status\/745322581620834304<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h.dvbegsfjl9ar\">The Blackhat attack<\/h3>\n<p>The decision to organize a counter-attack was probably made in the light of new attack on The DAO, briefly mentioned by Van de Sande in the other tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I repeat. There was an attack on the DAO so we launched our white hat counter attack. More updates will follow<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) (@avsa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avsa\/status\/745318197876953088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This way the ongoing counter-attack will address the new blackhat attack and all the future attacks on The DAO funds. The technology used is apparently exploiting the same vulnerability as now infamous &#8220;The Attacker&#8221; did, still there&#8217;s not much known of the process, except that more than one withdraw address is being used as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheDao\/comments\/4p6gm7\/all_nonzero_transactions_concerning_the_dao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this reddit post<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0suggests.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheDao\/comments\/4p6gm7\/all_nonzero_transactions_concerning_the_dao\/?ref=share&#038;ref_source=embed\" rel=\"nofollow\">All non-zero transactions Concerning the DAO<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheDao\" rel=\"nofollow\">TheDao<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/embed.redditmedia.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the information above, the today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0x4613f3bca5c44ea06337a9e439fbc6d42e501d0a%23internaltx\" rel=\"nofollow\">blackhat attack address<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0has already amassed more than 11,6 thousand of ether, being worth of about $143 thousand.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2521\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao3.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2521\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2521\" class=\"wp-image-2521 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/forklog.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao3.png\" alt=\"The Blackhat's address, Etherscan\" width=\"598\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao3.png 598w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao3-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ethdao3-470x178.png 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Blackhat&#8217;s address, Etherscan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Finally, Alex Van de Sande reported the current situation on the counter-attack:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DAO is now mostly empty. 7.2M ether have been secured so far. The community needs to help by identifying the rest. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ju26mD7fOG\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ju26mD7fOG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) (@avsa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avsa\/status\/745364898583056385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A white hat attack on The DAO led by Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation has been launched to protect its funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"human_written","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[446,46,445,427],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-alex-van-de-sande","tag-ethereum","tag-the-attacker","tag-the-dao"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"106","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","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=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}