VERDICT —OUT OF SCOPE
Root cause is infrastructure (DNS / cloud / database / third-party API) compromise, not on-chain contract logic. Pre-deployment source review would not surface this; coverage lives in cloud-security + supply-chain audit, separate discipline.
▰ METHOD
INFRASTRUCTURE
INFRASTRUCTURE
Root cause
Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.
Forensic narrative
The NFT project Axie Infinity tweeted that its market platform was attacked by DDoS and that someone was sending spam to its server in an attempt to make it unusable. Officials say the funds are currently safe. Attack method (per SlowMist): DDoS Attack. Reported loss: -.
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Axie Infinity
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2021-07-13
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:axie-infinity::2021-07-13
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