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
NFT marketplace LooksRare suffered a DDoS attack hours after its launch, resulting in a brief offline. Some users reported that they could not connect their wallets and list their NFTs. The LooksRare team quickly restored the site. Attack method (per SlowMist): DDoS Attack. Reported loss: -.
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- LooksRare
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2022-01-11
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:looksrare::2022-01-11
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