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 New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) went offline for two days in a row due to a cyber attack. NZX said on Tuesday it was first hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from abroad. The emails threatening DDoS attacks came from Fancy Bear, a well-known Russian hacking group. Attack method (per SlowMist): DDoS Attack. Reported loss: -.
Primary source
https://www.bbc.com/news/53918580 ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- NZX
- bug_class
- infrastructure
- date_occurred
- 2020-08-28
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:nzx::2020-08-28
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