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
On September 24, ether.fi experienced a security incident involving its domain registrar, Gandi.net, resulting in the compromise of the ether[.]fi domain. Attack method (per SlowMist): DNS Attack. Reported loss: -.
Primary source
https://etherfi.gitbook.io/etherfi/security/sep-24-incident-attempted-domain-account-takeover ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- ether.fi
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2024-09-24
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:ether-fi::2024-09-24
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