An El Salvador-based Bitcoin maxi says he took down 70% of the Dogecoin ($DOGE) community on Wednesday, utilizing an outdated laptop computer and a publicly out there exploit.
Bitcoin sidechain developer Andreas Kohl shared screenshots on X that recommend he crashed 442 of Dogecoin’s nodes, nearly 69% of the whole community, utilizing an outdated Thinkpad laptop computer and the ‘DogeReaper’ vulnerability.
‘DogeReaper’ permits a person to crash any Dogecoin node remotely. The exploit was revealed publicly on December 4 by the Division Of DOGE Effectivity (to not be confused with Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity).
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“Bitcoin Monk” Tobias Ruck and software program developer Roqqit each found the vulnerability, which was then disclosed in secret to miners and crypto exchanges. A patch for the node was created however a lot of the nodes within the community did not replace to the brand new patch, ensuing within the community in the end being exploited.
In keeping with the Doge Effectivity account, a malicious actor may’ve “stopped the Dogecoin network for at least a few days, with no transactions or blocks,” rendering the worth of DOGE “closer to $0 than to $1.”
The account additionally famous that Coinbase thought of the severity of the Dogecoin node exploit as “low” and “informative.” In keeping with Roqqit, “We never received confirmation that Coinbase updated to a non-vulnerable version of Dogecoin.”
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