Failed Attack on NEAR Protocol Rainbow Bridge Cost Attacker 2.5 ETH - BitcoinEthereumNews.com
Ang MALAPIT Protocol Rainbow Bridge was attacked on May 1. No funds have been stolen, and the attacker even lost some money, according to the CEO of Aurora Labs, Alex Shevchenko. Shevchenko added that additional measures will be taken to ensure that the cost of an attack would increase. ???? on the Rainbow Bridge attack today.nTL;DR: attack was stopped automatically, no bridged funds lost, attacker lost some money, bridge architecture was designed to resist such attacks, additional measures to be taken to ensure the cost of an attack attempt is increased — Alex Shevchenko ???????? (@AlexAuroraDev) Mayo 1, 2022 He also posted the address of the attacker, who started with some ETH sent through Tornado Cash. The attempt began on May 1, with the attacker deploying a contract meant to deposit some funds to become a Rainbow Bridge relayer. The attack idea was to send made-up light client blocks. After a while, one bridge watchdog discovered that the submitted block was not in the NEAR Protocol blockchain and sent a challenge transaction to Ethereum. Shevchenko explains in his tweet, “As a result, watchdog transaction failed, MEV bot transaction succeeded and rolled back the fabricated block of the attacker. Some min after this, our relayer submitted a