Appwarden could have mitigated these attacks
By proactively monitoring your web infrastructure and enabling you to quickly disable all user interaction with your website, Appwarden can stop in-progress security breaches in their tracks, protecting your project’s reputation and users’ funds while you safely resolve the issue.
Here is a short list of some historical attacks that Appwarden could have mitigated.
A code injection attack is a type of cyber attack where an attacker introduces malicious code into a vulnerable website. This malicious code is then executed by the website, leading to unauthorized actions, data breaches, or other malicious activities.
Appwarden can quarantine these attacks before they cause significant damage.
🚨 Badger DAO Protocol Suffers $120M Exploit
PROBLEM: Speculation in online channels is that the hack is the result of an exploit in the Badger.com user interface, and not in the core protocol contracts. Many affected users report that while claiming yield farming rewards and interacting with Badger vaults, they noticed their wallet providers prompting spurious requests for additional permissions.
SOLUTION: Appwarden could have quarantined the Badger DAO website within seconds of the attack being detected, preventing further exploitation of the vulnerability.
🚨 $300K Drained from @Balancer In Frontend Injection
PROBLEM: An attacker injected a malicious script into the Balancer frontend, which persuaded users to sign a transaction that drained a total of $300K from user wallets.
SOLUTION: For Appwarden-protected domains on Cloudflare, the attack would have been rendered ineffective by using Appwarden’s nonce-based Content Security Policy (CSP) to prevent the execution of the malicious script. On Vercel-based projects, Appwarden could have quarantined the website within seconds of the attack being detected, preventing further exploitation of the vulnerability.
🚨 KyberSwap Suffers $265K Frontend Exploit
PROBLEM: An attacker injected malicious code into the KyberSwap frontend via Google Tag Manager (GTM). It took multiple hours to remedy the situation, during which time the attacker drained $265K from user wallets.
SOLUTION: Appwarden could have quarantined the website within seconds of the attack being detected, preventing further exploitation of the vulnerability.
A DNS hijacking or DNS redirection attack is a type of cyber attack where an attacker gains unauthorized access to a DNS server or DNS records and modifies the DNS records to redirect traffic from a legitimate domain to a malicious one.
Appwarden can detect and quarantine these attacks before they cause significant damage.
🚨 $537K Siphoned from Curve Finance Website
PROBLEM: While the exact attack mechanism is still under investigation, the consensus is that attackers managed to clone the Curve Finance website and rerouted the DNS server to the fake page.
SOLUTION: Appwarden would have immediately detected the compromised DNS record and warned the Curve Finance team. The team could have then quarantined the domain, preventing users from interacting with the phishing site.
🚨 $500K in WBTC Stolen In DNS attack against Ribbon Finance
PROBLEM: Ribbon Finance’s DNS records were hijacked, redirecting users to a phishing site that stole $500K in WBTC.
SOLUTION: Appwarden would have immediately detected and warned the Ribbon Finance team about the compromised DNS record. The team could have then quarantined the domain, preventing users from interacting with the phishing site.
🚨 Around $240K Worth of ETH Stolen from Celer Protocol
PROBLEM: Celer Protocol’s DNS records were hijacked, redirecting users to a phishing site that stole around 128 ETH.
SOLUTION: Appwarden would have immediately detected and warned the Celer Protocol team about the compromised DNS record. The team could have then quarantined the domain, preventing users from interacting with the phishing site.
🚨 Attackers Drain $400K from Stellar Wallet BlackWallet in DNS Hijack
PROBLEM: BlackWallet’s DNS records were hijacked, redirecting users to a phishing site that stole around 128 ETH.
SOLUTION: Appwarden would have immediately detected and warned the BlackWallet team about the compromised DNS record. The team could have then quarantined the domain, preventing users from interacting with the phishing site.
Supply chain attacks happen when you deploy your project without realizing it contains malicious code. The code could be inserted by a rogue developer on your project or in a third party library your project depends on.
Supply chain attacks usually target project or user funds or data. Appwarden can quarantine these attacks before they cause significant damage.
🚨 $3M in Ether Stolen From SushiSwap’s MISO Launchpad
[SushiSwaps CTO Joseph Delong] said that an anonymous contractor using the GitHub handle “AristoK3″ injected malicious code into Miso’s front end in a supply chain attack.
PROBLEM: Supply chain attacks happen when a malicious actor changes a contract address to one they control. The attacker injected malicious code into the Miso front end, which was then deployed to the SushiSwap website and drained $3M in Ether from the MISO Launchpad.
SOLUTION: If the Ether was drained in multiple transactions, Appwarden could have quarantined the domain after the first transaction was detected, preventing further exploitation of the vulnerability.