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 team that developed Bitcoin Gold (BTG), a bifurcated project, has announced a 51% attack. According to the official disclosure, THE BTG network has been hit by 51% attacks lasting nearly 10 days. However, on July 2, the BTG team had issued an attack alert to the mine pool and the exchange and issued version 0.17.2, which included checkpoints at 640,650 blocks. The BTG team reminds all BTG Core nodes to upgrade to version 0.17.2. Attack method (per SlowMist): 51% attack. Reported loss: -.
Primary source
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/07/11/attempted-51-attack-on-bitcoin-gold-was-thwarted-developers-say/ ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- bitcoin
- protocol
- Bitcoin Gold
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2020-07-10
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:bitcoin-gold::2020-07-10
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