Summary

  • Across Protocol said it has regained control of its official domain, across.to, which had been hijacked in a phishing attack.
  • Across Protocol said it will fully reimburse losses suffered by users affected by the attack and plans to release a detailed report on the incident and its investigation.
  • According to DefiLlama, Across Protocol is a major cross-chain bridge that processed about $5.9 billion in asset transfers over the past 30 days, ranking third by transaction volume.

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Across Protocol, a cross-chain bridge, said it has regained control of its official website after a phishing attack hijacked the domain, and pledged to fully reimburse affected users.

Cointelegraph reported on November 11 that Across Protocol recovered control of its official domain, across.to, with support from domain registrar Namecheap. All related systems are now operating normally, and the project plans to fully reimburse users who suffered losses in the attack.

In a post on X, Across Protocol said it would ensure that every affected user is fully compensated for losses. It also plans to release a detailed report within days outlining how the incident unfolded and the findings of its investigation. The project has not disclosed the scale of the losses or the number of affected users.

The incident began a day earlier when an attacker carried out a social engineering attack against Namecheap. The attacker gained control of the official domain at about 6:45 p.m. UTC and replaced the legitimate website with a phishing site designed to steal user assets.

Across Protocol said it detected signs of the attack about 15 minutes after it began and moved to block the website. SEAL911, a security response group, reported the domain as a phishing site to major crypto wallet services. Cloudflare also classified it as a dangerous site and deleted the related domain name system, or DNS, records.

Some users may have suffered losses if they accessed the malicious website before it was fully blocked. Across Protocol said customers using integrations with external services and its application programming interface, or API, were not affected.

Across Protocol is one of the larger cross-chain bridges supporting asset transfers across major blockchains. DefiLlama data show it processed about $5.9 billion in asset transfers over the past 30 days, ranking third by transaction volume behind Circle and LayerZero.

Suehyeon Lee