Maintainers of the Ethereum network have issued an update for the network's underlying codebase that fixes flaws described in a research paper released this week.
The researcher paper —authored by researchers from Boston University and University of Pittsburgh— describes a vulnerability named an "eclipse attack."
Eclipse attacks are network-level attacks carried out by other nodes by hoarding and monopolizing the victim's peer-to-peer connection slots, keeping the node in an isolated network.
These type of attacks are meant to isolate nodes by keeping up-to-date blockchain information from reaching the eclipsed node. The Bitcoin network was, too,
vulnerable to eclipse attacks.
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