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The co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, warned users on April 18 not to follow eth.limo links after the famous ENS portal was exposed to an attack from the DNS registrar.
The eth.limo team confirmed the hack after a few minutes, saying that the domain had been hijacked at the time and that the parties concerned were trying to solve the problem.
What happened to eth.limo?
Eth.limo is a free open-source portal that allows users to access the content of Ethereum Services (ENS) via traditional web browsers. It translates ENS names to HTTPS URLs, allowing anyone to visit IPFS central locations.
The attacker is on the account of eth.limo in the registered domain. And that gave them the ability to redirect all traffic The ability to redirect all traffic on the *.eth.limo domain may display visitors For phishing pages or malicious software.
More information and request from users from eth.limo before restarting natural access.
“The people at @eth_limo warned me that there will be an attack on their DNS register. So I will not register vitalik.eth.limo or other eth.limo pages until you confirm that things are back to normal,” he wrote Butyrin.
The central weakness of decentralization
The incident highlights a gap in the structure of the web 3. While ENS IP records remain decentralized and unexplored, the DNS layer that connects browsers to browsers is still the layer of central registrars.
similar attacks It previously targeted DeFi protocols such as Cream Finance and Aerodrome, both of them through concessions at the registrant level.
exceeded the losses of the fraud 4 billion dollars in digital currencies in 2025and the hijacking operations of the front end became the focus of the increasing flow of traffic.
No losses to users’ money have been confirmed yet. eth.limo *.eth.limo until further notice.
