Hackers exploited the Dogecoin vulnerability, causing 69% of the nodes to crash
2024-12-13 11:09

Security researchers claim that the vulnerability may have been used to crash the entire Dogecoin network.

A hacker exploited a key vulnerability in the Dogecoin network, causing 69% of its nodes to crash.

On December 12, Andreas Cole, the co-founder of the Bitcoin Side Chain Sequence Company, claimed that he had destroyed 69 percent of the Dogecoin network. Kohl said he used an old laptop in El Salvador to perform it.

Data from the block chair suggests that Dogecoin had 647 active nodes before the vulnerability was exploited. At the time of writing, Dogecoin has 315 active nodes.

Source: Andrea Skol

Cole said he used a vulnerability discovered by researcher Tobias Lack to cause the node to crash.

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On December 4, an X account called the Dodge Efficiency Department publicly disclosed a vulnerability in the Dogecoin network, which they said could cause a complete collapse of the chain. According to the account, the Doggie Reaper vulnerability allows anyone to remotely crash any Dogecoin node.

The account said the bug functions like "Death Notes" in Japanese anime. In that fictional world, writing someone's name in a notebook causes them to die of a heart attack.

The account said the vulnerability is similar to the Dogecoin node. A social media account on  says that anyone can write down the address of a node and cause the node to die from a segmentation failure.

In computing, a segmentation failure occurs when a program attempts to access parts of the memory that it is not allowed to use. When this happens, the operating system stops the program for security reasons, leading to a crash.

The account claims that because the Dogecoin node is public, "anyone can exploit this vulnerability to destroy the entire Dogecoin network in an instant". "If a malicious actor finds this vulnerability instead of us, he can stop the Dogecoin Network for at least a few days without trading or blocking," they wrote.

Despite the potential for the bug, Coinbes felt the severity was low and awarded Luck $200.