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 privacy coin project Firo stated on Twitter that it is currently under 51% attacks and it is recommended that users do not trade during this period until the network returns to normal. Attack method (per SlowMist): 51% attack. Reported loss: -.
Primary source
https://twitter.com/firoorg/status/1351703001849757697 ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Firo
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2021-01-20
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:firo::2021-01-20
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