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The SecOps Group Launches Blockchain security services

Smart Contract Audit is what's more fundamental to ensure any agreement is working true to form, to forestall security penetration, and hacking assaults. While cybercriminals have been rapidly catching up to the latest security vulnerabilities and exploits, with the exponential growth of crypto currencies, NFTs and other blockchain implementations, there has never been a better time for a cybercriminal to convert a vulnerability into easy and big money.

The SecOps Group (https://secops.group) currently offers security consultancy services such as cloud security assessments, web and network penetration tests, and have now launched a blockchain smart contract security audit, to help blockchain developers identify and patch security issues before they get exploited in the wild.

What is a Blockchain

Blockchain is a transaction record database that is distributed, validated and maintained around the world by a network of computers. Instead of a single central authority such as a bank, a large community oversees the records in Blockchain, and no individual person has control over these records. Blockchain is based on decentralised technologies. Together these technologies function as a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network.

Blockchain technology is being used in many different industries. The annual blockchain spending will reach $16B by 2023, according to a recent research by CBInsights. The rate of adoption of the technology is increasing.

Different Blockchain Platforms and technologies

There are various blockchain platforms in the market and each platform uses its own technology. For example, the Ethereum platform uses the Solidity language, The Hyperledger platform uses Go, EOS platform uses Node.js. The most famous crypto currency “Bitcoin (BTC)” was developed on the Bitcoin platform. The Ether (ETH) crypto currency was developed on the Ethereum platform. Major blockchain applications are built on the Ethereum Platform which use solidity as a language for writing a code called “smart contract”.

What is a smart contract audit

A smart contract audit is an extensive methodical examination and analysis of a smart contract’s code which is used to interact with a cryptocurrency or blockchain. This process is conducted to discover errors, issues and security vulnerabilities in the code to suggest improvements and ways to fix them. Generally, smart contract audits are necessary, because most of the contracts deal with financial assets and/or valuable items.

Case study of some security breaches:

Solana is a blockchain based platform. Many web3 applications are deployed on the Solana blockchain as it is cost effective in terms of deployment. Recently a wallet based hack was observed in the Solana blockchain. The root cause of the breach is unclear but it appears to be due to a flaw in the wallet software used, which resulted in the private key and/or seed phrase compromise. A private key is unique and links a user to their blockchain address. A seed phrase is a fingerprint of all of a user’s blockchain assets that is used as a backup if a crypto wallet is lost. More than 7,000 wallets have been drained of more than 7 millions of dollars’ worth of SOL tokens.

Ethereum is a blockchain based platform. It is the first blockchain platform which uses smart contracts and it is the most trusted platform of all blockchain platforms. The largest-ever crypto hack measured in fiat dollars came after hackers gained control over a majority of the cryptographic keys securing the play-to-earn game’s cross-chain bridge. Four of the nine keys were stolen when an Axie developer clicked on a fake job offer PDF.

Wormhole is a Ethereum and Solana combined blockchain based web 3.0 bridge, which uses an intermediate bridge to transfer tokens between two different networks. A blockchain bridge is a protocol connecting two economically and technologically separate blockchains to enable interactions between them. A hacker exploited smart contracts on the Solana-to-Ethereum bridge to mint and cash out on wrapped ether without depositing collateral. The hack allowed hackers to steal a total of $320 million combining Ethereum and Solana tokens. Wormhole renamed its bridge portal and currently holds over $480 million, according to crypto data firm DeFi Llama.

Conclusion:

The security audit of smart contracts has become increasingly important today, because as we can see, thousands of decentralised finance projects and NFT projects have been developed using blockchain technology (aka web 3.0), so securing them is as equally important as building them.

For more details on the subject, please contact The SecOps Group:

Email: hello@secops.group

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/secops-group/

Twitter: @TheSecOpsGroup

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