Auditing Firm Claims Ethereum (ETH) Users Also Compromised
Solana auditing agency OtterSec in a tweet claimed the Solana (SOL) hack can also be affecting Ethereum (ETH) customers, though it’s much less widespread. Till now over 8000 wallets have been compromised. OtterSec stated attackers used precise keys for signing transactions, which suggests non-public keys on Phantom, Slope, Solflare, and TrustWallet are compromised.
OtterSec Claims Ethereum (ETH) Customers Additionally Affected by Solana Hack
Solana auditing agency OtterSec in a tweet on August 3 stated they’re monitoring the Solana hack. In response to a Dune dashboard, over 8000 Solana wallets at the moment are compromised. Furthermore, there are incidences of the Solana pockets problem affecting ETH customers. Nonetheless, the ETH customers should not broadly affected.
The Solana hack impacts a number of wallets together with Phantom, Slope, Solflare, and TrustWallet. Customers are requested to maneuver property to chilly wallets or centralized exchanges.
OtterSec cited an Ethereum consumer who reported his ERC-20 and USDC-SPL tokens held on each Slope and TrustWallet have been drained. Additionally, the wallets have been inactive for 4o days.
PeckShieldAlert additionally confirmed {that a} consumer’s TrustWallet and Slope wallets have been compromised on each Solana and Ethereum earlier than the Solana wallets have been drained. The attackers transferred almost $80 million value of ERC-20 tokens to his Ethereum handle.
Furthermore, the auditing agency revealed that transactions have been signed by precise homeowners, which suggests the non-public keys have been compromised. Solana Labs and Phantom assert their networks are working superb and don’t imagine the problem is said to the Solana community or Phantom pockets.
In the meantime, Solana within the newest tweet confirmed that there isn’t a proof of {hardware} wallets being compromised. Engineers, a number of safety researchers, and ecosystem groups are working to determine the foundation reason behind the exploit and monitor drained wallets on Solana.
“There’s no proof {hardware} wallets have been impacted – and customers are strongly inspired to make use of {hardware} wallets. Don’t reuse your seed phrase on a {hardware} pockets – create a brand new seed phrase. Wallets drained ought to be handled as compromised, and deserted.”
Solana urges affected customers to fill out the “Compromised Wallet Data Collection” type to assist engineers look into the problem and discover the foundation trigger.
Validator Launches DDOS Assault on Solana
In response to Solana validator discord, Jito validator launched a DDOS attack on the Solana RPC nodes to decelerate the SOL elimination charge from 1000 per minute to 1 per minute.
Nonetheless, Twitterati questions the DDOS assault on the Solana community. Many claims the assault will proceed after the community is up once more.
In the meantime, Solana Labs’ co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has confirmed the iOS provide chain assault.
