EasyDNS admits responsibility for the Eth.limo hijacking incident, marking its first social engineering attack in 28 years.

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Mars Finance reports that, according to The Block, the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) gateway eth.limo experienced a DNS hijacking attack last Friday night. The project released an after-action report on Saturday, tracing the attack back to a social engineering attack targeting the domain registrar EasyDNS. eth.limo stated that DNSSEC validation has rejected the attacker’s domain server change, and so far no users have been found to be actually affected. To address the recent multiple DNS layer breaches of crypto frontends, eth.limo plans to migrate to a more secure service under EasyDNS that no longer supports account recovery features. EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic publicly acknowledged the vulnerability, stating that this is the first successful social engineering attack on customers in their 28-year history.

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