Balancer, an Ethereum-based automated market maker said a social engineering attack on its DNS service provider, EuroDNS was what led to its frontend being compromised.
The team behind Balancer, an Ethereum-based automated market maker, believes a social engineering attack on its DNS service provider was what led to its website’s frontend being compromised on Sept. 19,“After investigation, it is clear that this was a social engineering attack on EuroDNS, the domain registrar used for .fi TLDs,” the firmits decentralized autonomous organization was actively addressing the DNS attack and was working to recover the Balancer UI.
At 5:45 pm UTC on Sept. 20, Balancer said it was successful in securing the domain and bringing it back under the control of Balancer DAO. It also confirmed its subdomains “app.balancer.fi” and other “balancer.fi” are safe to use again. After investigation it is clear that this was a social engineering attack on EuroDNS, the domain registrar used for .fi TLDs.
We are exploring deprecating the .fi TLD in order to move to a more secure registrar and suggest that other projects using the TLD do the same.However, it suggested any other projects using the same top-level domain should consider moving to a more secure registrar. EuroDNS is a Luxembourg-based domain name registrar and DNS service provider. Cointelegraph has reached out to EuroDNS for comment.
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