The external interfaces of Polygon and Fantom were attacked using DNS – Bits Media

Polygon cybersecurity specialist warned, that two RPC gateways for Polygon and Fantom, provided by Ankr, were hacked. At the same time, user funds were not injured.

Chief information security specialist Polygon Mudit Gupta (Mudit gupta) reported on Twitter, what 1 July two interfaces of remote calls of procedures (RPC) Polygon and Fantom blocks are faced with cyber attacks with an interception of a domain name system (DNS).

“The public gateway RPC, provided by Ankr for Polygon and Fantom, today was hacked by capturing DNS. Use Alchemy or others, Until this is fixed ", - warned Gupta.

RPC refers to the set of protocols, which allow the client, Such as Metamask, interact with blockchain. DNS interception is a type of cyber attack, in which attackers manipulate requests to redirect users to malicious sites.

Gupta specified, that the attack was built on the basis of "operation of intermediate software". Decentralized applications, which used the final point RPC, Currently inaccessible. At the same time, the Web3 Ankr infrastructure platform has already restored access to its RPC accounts.

“As far as we know, The funds are not lost, But we are still conducting an investigation ", - said Gupta.

Recall, what, According to the recent Bestbrokers report, blockchains began to face hacks less, Since the decentralized finance market (DeFi) He became a more favorite goal of hackers because of a large amount of venture money and safety problems.

So, Last month, a decentralized financial credit service inverse finance for a second time in two months was hacked with an exploit of instant loan. This time hackers kidnapped $1.2 a million in BTC and USDT. In March, the Defi Li Finance protocol lost crypto assets on $600 000 due to a vulnerability in a smart contract.