Quote from: Tytanowy Janusz on November 17, 2020, 03:08:39 PM

Looks like we have first AI/human-farm attack. According to this telegram message 700 nodes are connected to single qtrade deposit address.

"this qtrade deposit adress:
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x442FB9F44922e6Ff9e3281753953546942EfFB7B
is connected to 15 nodes:
https://scan.idena.io/address/0xdeC6C15F2E4B06880A361ecBeaf4A47Cc132076b
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x63062137B01B13CfB53F57e1d271Cb6fc406F54b
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x240B38f8809E29FE3257A2bEf95C588b1d24d6c3
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x90962375f5Ce9346596Ea441BC1b9619BCf6277A
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x0ecc4Da09df752Bd0Be6a937E31aC161F15DdE29
https://scan.idena.io/address/0xEA9F20BCb0102f280C13BC4C01893Cc5e3fceb4A
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x104c1C8F89e414baD8dCF27b8Bb16eC31b28dFB3
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x37590b1dA8Ef2Aa12AD760087e70F20E7316A042
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x85a93785cFD0b6d6dB57e39f25af445AD89851a9
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x4C08CF3Fd4CA78EFaE881cA83c4dA0895cf876eE
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x53C34539ad373412129198F51dCBD1cEa8814876
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x1E0D0E1b9e97d2A3689381CE67B3A8ccA33312A1
https://scan.idena.io/address/0x28f4B70Bd1291AECf8e1f695674Ad41c525a3d2a
These 15 nodes collect founds from ~50 small (1-5 epoch old) nodes each. This farm of at least 700 nodes belong to 1 person and minned 140k iDNA during 1.5 epoch. 10-15% of all indena nodes belong to 1 person and it was all achieved during 4-5 validations. He will have more than half nodes in next few epochs."
https://t.me/idena_trading/30534

No official response yet.

I'd like to note there is currently NO evidence these nodes all belong to one person, there are other possible explanations, such as someone hiring others to solve/make flips for a cut (unknowing about Idena as a whole), scammers, etc. We will likely get an official response on the matter soon enough. I'm personally not too worried, since it's unlikely one person actually controls all these nodes and could cause any havoc at the current stage of things.

Not to mention they are clearly not too worried about this getting noticed, since they used the same Qtrade address repeatedly.