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Polygon & Fantom DNS Hijacking Attack

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Incident Overview

Polygon Chief Information Security Officer Mudit Gupta tweeted that two remote procedure call (RPC) interfaces of Polygon and Fantom were affected by a Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking attack on Friday. The reason was that a hacker hijacked Ankr's Domain Name System (DNS) to steal the user's seed stage, and Ankr quickly recovered the error and said no funds were lost.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://zh-cn.bitcoinethereumnews.com/technology/dns-hijack-compromised-ankrs-services-for-polygon-and-fantom/ (opens in a new tab)

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