By CCN: According to The Next Web and explosive data from HackerOne, a security bounty website, a single computer could have shut down the Tron network by draining the cryptocurrency network’s resources. Bytecode Attack Threatened to Bring Tron to Its Knees We could dub the vulnerability a “bytecode” attack. The method involves using a massive piece of bytecode to consume the resources on Tron’s network, effectively shutting it down for things like processing smart contract requests and even transactions. The report’s summary reads: “A single request to submit a post to /wallet/deploycontract with several megabytes of bytecode along with CPU
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