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Security Incident · ETH Ecosystem

dYdX DNS Attack: $31.00K Reported Loss

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Incident Overview

On July 23, the dydx.exchange domain was discovered to have been compromised. The attacker changed the DNS Nameservers from Cloudflare to DDoS-Guard. The attacker also successfully removed the DNSSEC settings on the domain. The attacker hosted a malicious site which requested that any connected wallets transfer ETH and other ERC20 tokens to the attacker’s Ethereum address. Two users were affected, resulting in a loss of approximately $31,000.

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