{"id":586339,"date":"2026-04-20T05:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/hackers-impersonated-eth-limo-team-to-hijack-its-domain-post-mortem\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T05:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:53:12","slug":"hackers-impersonated-eth-limo-team-to-hijack-its-domain-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/hackers-impersonated-eth-limo-team-to-hijack-its-domain-post-mortem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers impersonated eth.limo team to hijack its domain: Post-mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hackers<\/p>\n

EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic said the social engineering attack was highly sophisticated and the company is conducting further investigation to determine how the breach occurred.<\/p>\n

Ethereum Name Service gateway eth.limo has revealed that the domain hijacking on Friday was caused by a social engineering attack directed against EasyDNS, its domain name service provider.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to a postmortem published<\/a> by eth.limo on Saturday, an attacker impersonated one of its team members to initiate an account recovery process with easyDNS, granting access to the eth.limo account and allowing them to alter domain settings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NS records were changed and directed to Cloudflare\u2026 Once we understood that a DNS hijack had taken place, we immediately notified the community as well as Vitalik Buterin and others. We then began contacting EasyDNS in an attempt to respond to the incident,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

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EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic said the social engineering attack was highly sophisticated and the company is conducting further investigation to determine how the breach occurred. Ethereum Name Service gateway eth.limo has revealed that the domain hijacking on Friday was caused by a social engineering attack directed against EasyDNS, its domain name service provider.\u00a0 According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":586340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-586339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}