An exploit discovered by researcher Tobias Ruck has caused more than half of the cryptocurrency's blockchain nodes to crash. Dogecoin with a market capitalization of over $58 billion.
The vulnerability, dubbed "Dogereaper," allowed Sequentia developer Andreas Kohl to take down 69% of all nodes Dogecoin All he needed was an old laptop.
The vulnerability allows any attacker to use the name of any node to remotely shut it down. This is equivalent to putting it on a kill list.
The situation could have been much worse if not for the intervention of the developer. cash Tobias Ruck and his colleague from Roqqit. Ruck discovered the vulnerability while developing an alternative Dogecoin Core doged. While testing the ported code for alternative software, he encountered a segmentation fault that was not fixed in the original code.
We do not condone node failures and work hard to keep the network secure. The attack could have been much worse. All important stakeholders such as miners, exchanges, etc. were notified well before the attack, which shows how important it is to act with caution.
According to him, if it were not for a patch in the latest update of the node software, the blockchain would not work Dogecoin could be completely suspended.
Similar problems have occurred in blockchain this year Solana , which caused block generation to stop for several hours.
