DNS Attack Compromises Ankr’s RPC Gateway for Polygon and Fantom

Ankr, a company engaged in providing infrastructure for web3 services announced that hackers were targeting its Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) services which it offers to Polygon and Fantom. Polygon, Fantom Suffer DNS Attack The Chief Information Security Officer at 0xPolygon, Mudit Gupta, revealed on Twitter that a DNS hijack has compromised Ankr’s RPC gateway for Polygon (polygon-rpc.com) and Fantom (rpc.ftm.tools). He further emphasized that his business has no control over the services rendered by third parties. Gupta acknowledged working with Ankr and advised using Alchemy RPCs up until the problem is fixed. He also emphasized that Polygon is developing its own RPC in order to increase reliability. Additionally, Fantom also urged its users not to make use of the hacked RPC. We'll work closely with Ankr to ensure this does not happen again. We are also working on a more decentralized alternative as a research project and a foundation owned RPC node for more reliability. — Mudit Gupta (@Mudit__Gupta) July 1, 2022 The hacker accessed Polygon and Fantom’s remote procedure call (RPC) interfaces through the Web3 infrastructure platform Ankr by tricking a third party domain name system (DNS) provider into giving the hacker access to Polygon and Fantom’s domains. Safe access to the crypto platforms’ websites was restored shortly a few hours earlier, according to an update from Ankr. https://t.co/G0lDsBuZqr and https://t.co/OLFyE1mK...