BlockThreat - Week 38, 2019

Lightning | EtherDelta | Skidmap | Panda

This week featured a couple of very interesting research papers documenting denial of service attacks targeting Lightning and Ethereum networks. More details about the EtherDelta hack from the recent indictment. There are also a number of great reports on the actors and malware behind several Monero mining malware campaigns. Finally, check out write ups on the past and schedules of the upcoming blockchain security happenings in the Events section.

Research

• Hijacking Routes in Payment Channel Networks: A Predictability Tradeoff - the paper documents a denial of service attack on the Lightning network by manipulating network routes to control the majority of the traffic. The paper also documents that 80% of the Lightning network traffic routes through only 10 nodes.

• Broken Metre: Attacking Resource Metering in EVM - the paper presents a resource exhaustion attack exploiting imperfections in the EVM opcode pricing.

Hacks

• TalkTalk hacker also breached EtherDelta cryptocurrency exchange - two s…