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Kevin Beaumont reports that, by compromising a router at Equinix in Chicago, attackers were able to forge DNS responses for myetherwallet.com, with users "redirected to a server hosted in Russia, which served the website using a fake certificate." Victims' online wallets were drained of cryptocurrency.
Also at The Verge and Ars Technica which said
Amazon lost control of a small number of its cloud services IP addresses for two hours on [April 24] when hackers exploited a known Internet-protocol weakness that let them to redirect traffic to rogue destinations. By subverting Amazon's domain-resolution service, the attackers masqueraded as cryptocurrency website MyEtherWallet.com and stole about $150,000 in digital coins from unwitting end users. They may have targeted other Amazon customers as well.
(Score: 4, Informative) by tibman on Monday April 30 2018, @05:19PM
Having played with Etherium a bit i wouldn't give anyone crap for not wanting to manage their own wallets/transactions. Right now you are required to download and verify the entire blockchain since the beginning in order to do anything with your wallet. It was something like 40gb of data. Every time you start the wallet app you have to download and verify new blocks. I've had it lockup and die and without any checkpoints you are required to delete the blockchain blob and refetch the entire thing. That could take an entire day to sync.
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