{"id":686436,"date":"2026-11-11T04:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/across-protocol-restores-website-after-hackers-hijack-domain\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T04:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:52:50","slug":"across-protocol-restores-website-after-hackers-hijack-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/across-protocol-restores-website-after-hackers-hijack-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Across Protocol restores website after hackers hijack domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/11\/01M74EHM7R9ATYZA82TJHYCP49\/hi-the-dangers-of-perceived-anonymity-russian-hackers-bitcoin-trail02-1.jpg\" alt=\"Across Protocol restores website after hackers hijack domain\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cross-chain bridge said a social engineering attack targeting domain registrar Namecheap allowed hackers to redirect users to a phishing site.<\/p>\n<p>Cross-chain bridge Across Protocol said it has regained control of its website after a social engineering attack on Tuesday enabled attackers to gain control of its domain, replacing its website with a phishing site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Wednesday, Across said the across.to domain is back under their control with help from Namecheap founder Richard Kirkendall, and that all systems are now working normally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll affected users will be made whole. We\u2019ll share a full post-mortem in the coming days,\u201d the team said on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/across-protocol-restores-website-after-hackers-hijack-domain\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cross-chain bridge said a social engineering attack targeting domain registrar Namecheap allowed hackers to redirect users to a phishing site. Cross-chain bridge Across Protocol said it has regained control of its website after a social engineering attack on Tuesday enabled attackers to gain control of its domain, replacing its website with a phishing site.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":686437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-686436","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\/686436","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=686436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}