A serious hacker attack on the security of the XRP Ledger ecosystem was thwarted thanks to the prompt intervention of the security team and the report of an expert researcher.
A hacker attempted to exploit a developer’s access token to introduce malicious code into one of the most used libraries for interacting with the XRP ledger: xrpl.js.
The attempted attack, if successful, could have turned into a supply chain attack on a large scale, potentially compromising hundreds of thousands of applications and websites that rely on this JavaScript library.
The key role of Aikido Security in the discovery of the vulnerability of the hacker attack on XRP Ledger
The threat was identified by Charlie Eriksen, a researcher at Aikido Security, who detected the anomaly on April 21st.
The company’s monitoring system has detected five suspicious versions of the xrpl.js package published via Node Package Manager (NPM), a platform widely used for the distribution of JavaScript packag
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