Ethereum’s latest network upgrade, Pectra, introduced powerful new features aimed at improving scalability and smart account functionality — but it also opened a dangerous new attack vector that could allow hackers to drain funds from user wallets using only an offchain signature.
Under the Pectra upgrade, which data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-s-pectra-network-upgrade-goes-live-today-what-to-expect” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>went live on May 7 at epoch 364032, attackers can exploit a new transaction type to take control of externally owned accounts (EOAs) without requiring the user to sign an onchain transaction.
Arda Usman, a Solidity smart contract auditor,…
