PhishingHook: Catching Phishing Ethereum Smart Contracts Leveraging EVM Opcodes

The Ethereum Virtual Machine EVM is a decentralized computing engine. It enables the Ethereum blockchain to execute smart contracts and decentralized applications dApps. The increasing adoption of Ethereum sparked the rise of phishing activities. Phishing attacks often target users through...

RUSTSEC-2021-0066 Denial of service on EVM execution due to memory over-allocation

Prior to the patch, when executing specific EVM opcodes related to memory operations that use evmcore::Memory::copylarge, the crate can over-allocate memory when it is not needed, making it possible for an attacker to perform denial-of-service attack. The flaw was corrected in commit 19ade85...