The blockchain project team of the TRON Foundation reported that the bug that threatened the stability of the TRON network was successfully eliminated.
According to the publication, which was posted on HackerOne , the bug found in the TRON code could allow attackers to absorb the computing capabilities of the TRON network and carry out a DDoS attack by introducing malicious code into a smart contract, which would trigger network overload. The report states that with just one computer a potential attacker could make a DDoS attack on all or half of the nodes of the so-called super representatives. Such manipulations would have caused the TRON blockchain to become inaccessible for use.
The vulnerability was discovered on January 14, however, the public learned about it quite recently, when the bug was already fixed. The cybersecurity expert, who detected and neutralized the threat, received a reward of $ 1,500.
Recall that at the end of last year, TheNextWeb resource published a report in which it was noted that during 2018, white hackers received a total reward of $ 878,000. The most active in providing cash incentives for detecting and eliminating bugs was Block.one, which is behind the development of the EOS crypto project. The second place went to the Coinbase crypto exchange – the amount of its rewards for ethical hackers reached $ 290,381 in 2018. In third place, the TRON Foundation – representatives of this blockchain project paid $ 76,200 to cybersecurity experts.
