Solana’s Blockchain Suffered Another DDoS Attack: Report

Solana’s blockchain suffered another DDoS Attack reportedly in the early hours of Tuesday morning as we can see today in our blockchain news.

Solana’s blockchain suffered another DDoS attack but the network seems to be back in full mode. This seems to be the third smaller incident in the past few months. According to the prominent Chinese journalist Colin Wu, Solana went down at the start of the year and the attack was suspected of leveraging spam to carry on the distributed denial of service attack. The network was back online after four hours as the DDoS attack usually overwhelms or clogs the network by sending plenty of requests to the victim’s web resource and hinders the platform from running as it should.

Solana went down again at two o'clock in the morning (UTC+8) on January 4th. According to users of the official Telegram community, the attacker is suspected of using spam to conduct a DDoS attack.

— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) January 4, 2022

While no official details confirming the event were divulged by the Solana foundation, the incident is the third in the past six months and several accounts asserted that Solana suffered a huge slowdown rather than an outage. The members of the r/Cryptocurrency subreddit also reproted the matter and claimed that the vulnerability of the system is a death knell for serious traders as the post reads:

“Blaming it on attackers is just dishonesty. A well-designed blockchain is not supposed to have attackers, it is supposed to keep producing blocks based on the parameters of the network, not take a break because someone spammed transactions.”

This is not the first such instance where Solana was hit with a DDoS attack and the Solana Status reported that the network suffered an instability of over 45 minutes back in September of 2021. During this time, Solana validators were gearing up for a new release before being hit with a 17-hour outage because of mass botting activity on the Solana-DX Raydium. While no funds were lost and Solana returned to full functionality, the entire fiasco attracted more criticism when the developers restarted the network.

Three months later, the network was hit with a second DDoS attack but it did remain online. Despite suffering from heavy congestion, co-founder Raj Gokal clarified that there was no actual DDoS attack but it was the NFT game SolChicks that revealed its Chicks NFT was responsible for the performance issues on the blockchain.