Unsuccessful attack on Ethereum network 51% – Bits Media

On Tuesday night, an attack was made on the Ethereum blockchain - unknown miners published their own chain in 550 blocks, however, the vast majority of nodes threw them as nonsense.

As reported
Ethereum developer Marius Van Der Weyden (Marius Van Der Wijden), the blocks released by hackers had incorrect confirmations. Most Ethereum Nodes, after detecting invalid confirmation, rejected alternative blocs. However, a small proportion of nodes, on which the Nethermind client is installed, switched to a fake chain.

However, very soon the length of the main Ethereum chain exceeded that of the alternative, and clients independently switched to the correct version of the blockchain. However, the hackers were unable to take advantage of the situation..

"This is another example of, How Using Different Clients Increases Ethereum's Resilience. The node operators didn’t even have to take any action.”, - noted the developer.

14 September was a day of massive attacks and errors in blockchains - the developers of the Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum reported problems. Besides, more 15 The main network of the Solana cryptocurrency was not functioning for hours.