{"id":62492,"date":"2022-06-06T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=62492"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:26:04","slug":"stepn-app-hit-by-a-barrage-of-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/stepn-app-hit-by-a-barrage-of-ddos-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"STEPN app hit by a barrage of DDoS attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 5, the STEPN team said that over the course of a few hours <span data-descr='Move-to-Earn, users earn cryptocurrencies and NFTs through activity in the real world' class='old_tooltip'>M2E<\/span>-app was subjected to multiple DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'>\n<p lang='en' dir='ltr'>1\/2<br \/>We have been under multiple DDOS attacks in the past hours. Securing the servers and recovery may take anywhere from 1 to 12 hours. We recommend you take some rest during the maintenance or otherwise the work-outs may not be recorded properly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 STEPN | Public Beta Phase IV (@Stepnofficial) <a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stepnofficial\/status\/1533444332438425600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>June 5, 2022<\/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>\u201cServer protection and recovery may take up to 12 hours. We recommend you take a short break during maintenance, otherwise workouts may be recorded incorrectly,\u201d the developers wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Built on the Solana and BNB Chain networks, the game lets players earn rewards in GST and GMT tokens for walking or running. To participate, users must purchase sneakers as NFTs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class='wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow'>\n<p>\u201cOur engineers are doing everything possible to fix the issues. We will inform you as soon as the restoration is complete,\u201d the app team said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As of writing, the developers had provided no further comments.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the attack, the project\u2019s governance token GMT rose more than 10% over the past 24 hours and was trading at around $1.05 (CoinGecko).<\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image'><img decoding='async' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/rMMZqegnYmTKapNQxVn1bjz5EmKln6zl2i_9vfe4_XuxYJLjx5FfpvhKrhl6U1h-zzfSNAEKyo8lS5REDgZrLk0sYhsH6MmB57zZ_xnq8gF0tdkl3RJyz9bAD1_w_sDzfdT_4kqj8NPvMEiAkQ' alt='STEPN app hit by a massive DDoS attack'\/><figcaption>Data: <a href='https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/'>CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The in-game currency GST on Solana rose to <a href='https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/green-satoshi-token'>$0.66<\/a> \u2014 up 6.5% in the last 24 hours. On the BNB Chain blockchain the token was worth around <a href='https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/green-satoshi-token-bsc'>$0.85<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of June 15, STEPN <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/stepn-to-discontinue-service-for-users-in-mainland-china\">will cease to service<\/a> users from mainland China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 5, the STEPN team said that within a few hours the M2E app was subjected to multiple DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1772,1155,1475],"class_list":["post-62492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ddos-attacks","tag-games-and-gamefi","tag-stepn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62492","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=62492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62494,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62492\/revisions\/62494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}