ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, several French government websites went offline due to a DDoS attack, which is suspected to be linked to a Russian hacker group. The affected websites include the Paris Administrative Court, the French Health Department, and the French Supreme Court.A preliminary report from Entropia Intel indicates that this attack is believed to be a response to the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France.On August 24, Durov was detained by French authorities on charges of conspiracy to commit illegal activities. French President Macron subsequently issued a statement, stating that Durov's arrest was not politically motivated and reaffirmed France's commitment to freedom of speech. As of now, Durov has not been formally charged with a crime. French authorities can hold him until August 28 for further investigation.

ChainCatcher message, Musk posted on X that X is experiencing a large-scale DDOS attack and is working to shut it down.He stated: "In the worst-case scenario, we will continue with a small number of live listeners and release the conversation later."

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the Cardano blockchain successfully mitigated a DDoS attack targeting its staked ADA, resulting in no downtime.It is reported that the attackers attempted to steal tokens by executing a large number of smart contracts, but were discovered and countered by Cardano developers, recovering some funds. The Chief Technology Officer of Fluid Token stated that the attack began at block 10,487,530, with each transaction executing 194 smart contracts, costing the attackers 0.9 ADA per transaction.The founder of Cardano development company Anastasia pointed out that the attack could be immediately stopped by revoking the attackers' staking credentials, and the attackers ceased their activities after seeing related tweets.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, EigenLayer has implemented additional security features for its EigenDA data availability service on the Ethereum mainnet to prevent Sybil and DDoS attacks.According to the announcement from EigenDA, this whitelist security measure utilizes IP addresses or Ethereum address ECDSA authentication to ensure enhanced protection and guarantee secure access to the service. ECDSA authentication is a cryptographic method used to verify the identity of users, devices, or systems.

ChainCatcher news, Meme project SLERF founder @Slerfsol posted on social media that the project website has suffered a DDOS attack.

ChainCatcher news, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website is down, displaying "Page not found," suspected to be under a DDoS attack.

ChainCatcher news, Manta Network tweeted that it has announced a DDoS attack Gas fee compensation plan. From January 18, 17:30 to January 20, 12:30 Beijing time, any Gas fees paid on Manta Pacific greater than 0.001 ETH will be refunded to users.Manta Network stated that this DDoS attack did not cause any issues to its blockchain itself (the network continued to operate, and blocks continued to be generated), but due to RPC congestion caused by the attack, users were unable to access many applications or complete transactions. Users do not need to take any action for this Gas fee compensation; the fees will be directly refunded to wallets that conducted any on-chain transactions exceeding 0.001 ETH during the affected period.

ChainCatcher news, Manta Network co-founder and COO Kenny Li posted on social media that at the same time as their TGE event began (Beijing time 17:30), Manta Network started to experience a DDoS attack. Since then, the project team has seen over 135 million requests reaching the RPC nodes, indicating that this is a very aggressive and well-timed attack.According to reports, the situation for Manta Network is as follows: blockchain operation is secure; product production is normal; funds are safe; communication between applications and the blockchain is severely restricted.Currently, the Manta Network team is working around the clock to resolve the issue. They are developing more DDoS mitigation measures and communicating with partners and service providers to deploy countermeasures. This attack is much more ferocious than usual and has lasted significantly longer, which means that the time to resolve the issue will also be longer than usual.

ChainCatcher message, Atomicals Market posted on social media that it is experiencing a DDoS attack, and market services are temporarily unavailable. The development team is working on a fix.It is reported that a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack refers to multiple attackers from different locations simultaneously attacking one or several targets, or a single attacker controlling multiple machines located in different places and using these machines to attack the victim simultaneously.

ChainCatcher message, UniSat Wallet posted on platform X stating that there are intermittent service interruptions due to a DDoS attack. Their team is actively working to resolve this issue.

ChainCatcher message, based on the AVAX network, the social protocol Stars Arena posted on the X platform stating that the smart contract has been exploited, funds have been drained, and the website is currently under DDOS attack. Solutions are being developed to ensure that every user's funds can be recovered.Earlier news, Stars Arena previously stated that a significant security vulnerability was found in the smart contract. On-chain information shows that Stars Arena has been exploited, resulting in a loss of approximately 2.9 million dollars.

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum Layer2 solution Loopring announced that it suffered a DDoS attack on November 4th (UTC+8) at 21:00. During the incident, RPS (requests per second) significantly increased, and the Loopring gateway was unable to handle such a large volume of requests, resulting in service unavailability and an interruption of 11 hours. Service has now been restored. This attack did not affect the assets of the Loopring protocol, and users need not worry. (source link)