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2019-09-14 22:53:31

EOS vulnerability leads to scam: $30,000 worth of scam reported

In the latest, an EOS vulnerability led to a scam worth about thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) on an EOS decentralized gambling application (app). The decentralized gambling app on EOSPlay was compromised at the hands of a technoid. The scammer used it to turn a thousand dollars ($1000) into one hundred and ten thousand dollars ($110,000) by winning every single roll on the gamble. He managed to acquire approximately thirty thousand (30,000) EOS while rendering the network inoperable by anyone else. The exploit was accomplished by the hacker due to his indigenous methodology of filling the blocks with their transactions. All