Hackers attacked cryptocurrency platforms Polygon and Fantom

Chief Information Security Officer at Polygon Mudit Gupta said that the remote procedure call (RPC) interfaces for the Polygon and Fantom blockchains have faced a cyberattack — hackers have intercepted domain name systems (DNS). Mudit Gupta announced this on Twitter.

RPC refers to a set of protocols that allow a client such as MetaMask to interact with the blockchain. DNS hijacking is a type of cyberattack in which attackers manipulate queries to redirect users to malicious sites. As Gupta emphasized, the attack was based on «exploitation of middleware.»

At the time of writing, it is known that users' funds were not affected and are safe, but the investigation is still ongoing. Obviously, the developers of the Polygon and Fantom blockchains were «luckier» than Harmony — recently, $ 100 million was stolen from the Horizon cross-chain bridge of the Harmony blockchain as a result of a hacker attack. Currently, security analysts suspect the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group of the theft.