Altcoin News: TRON Foundation Reported on Eliminating Critical Bug That Threatened Network Stability

May 7, 2019, by Marko Vidrih on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

The developers of the blockchain project TRON revealed information about the “high level” vulnerability that threatened the stability of their network. A notice was posted on the HackerOne website.

According to the publication, until recently, attackers could expend network computing resources by implementing DoS attacks.

“Using one computer, an attacker could send a DDoS attack to all or 51% of the super-representative nodes, which would make it impossible to use the Tron network,” reports the TRON Foundation.

To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker needed to consistently trigger the triggering of smart contract functions using malicious bytecode, understood by the TRON virtual machine.

Initially, a cybersecurity problem researcher danish1970 reported to the TRON Foundation about the problem on January 14, for which he received a reward of $1,500 on February 1. Along with disclosing information about this problem, TRON Foundation 5 days ago, without details, reported that it paid $3,100 for helping to find another vulnerability.

In just 10 months of existence, the program capture bugs TRON Foundation paid experts HackerOne $78,800 in 15 separate reports of vulnerabilities found. 12 of them are marked “eliminated”. The largest reward paid by the organization to date has been $10,000.

In 2018, independent cybersecurity experts earned $878,000, revealing information about the vulnerabilities of crypto startups. More than half of this amount was paid by the Block.one company, which is developing the blockchain project EOS.