Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade on Sepolia faces disruptions, unknown attacker mines empty blocks

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Ethereum’s highly anticipated Pectra upgrade encountered disruptions on the Sepolia testnet following an exploit that led to empty block mining. The upgrade, which was deployed on March 5, ran into issues a few hours later when developers noticed error messages on their geth node.

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12:00am, Monday, March 10, 2025

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Cryptopolitan

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Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade suffered an exploit on Sepolia

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The fix is only filtering out transactions that directly call the deposit contract. If we publicized the fix, the attacker would’ve been able to circumvent our mitigation by calling the contract from another contract.

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Ethereum’s highly anticipated Pectra upgrade encountered disruptions on the Sepolia testnet following an exploit that led to empty block mining.

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Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade suffered an exploit on Sepolia

The fix is only filtering out transactions that directly call the deposit contract. If we publicized the fix, the attacker would’ve been able to circumvent our mitigation by calling the contract from another contract.

Ethereum’s highly anticipated Pectra upgrade encountered disruptions on the Sepolia testnet following an exploit that led to empty block mining.