TRON suffered from a critical bug that could’ve crashed its entire blockchain

2019-5-6 18:49

Just one computer could have brought TRON’s entire blockchain to a screeching halt, a new HackerOne disclosure has revealed. Until quite recently, bad actors were reportedly able to maliciously consume the CPU power of the network with Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.

“Using a single machine, an attacker could send DDOS attack to all or 51 percent of the [Super Representative] nodes and render TRON network unusable, or make it unavailable,” reads the report, labeled high severity. Potential DDoS attacks involved repeatedly calling for smart contracts to be deployed, loaded with malicious “bytecode” (the code format accepted by the TRON Virtual Machine. )…

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