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
According to a tweet from Manta Network, the Manta Pacific chain encountered an RPC attack at approximately 9 AM UTC. Kenny Li, co-founder of Manta Network (@superanonymousk), provided updates on Twitter regarding the DDoS attack on Manta Network. He mentioned that Manta Network experienced a calculated DDoS attack at 9:30 AM UTC, coinciding with the start of their TGE activity. Since then, the RPC nodes have faced over 135 million requests, indicating that this was a very aggressive and timed attack. Attack method (per SlowMist): DDoS Attack. Reported loss: -.
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- Manta Pacific
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2024-01-18
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:manta-pacific::2024-01-18
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