Ethereum developers deployed a private fix after the Sepolia testnet was attacked post-Pectra upgrade, preventing the attacker from adapting.

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Ethereum developers deployed a private fix after the Sepolia testnet was attacked post-Pectra upgrade, preventing the attacker from adapting.

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We discreetly updated our nodes to regain control.

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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