eclipse attack, Monero P2P

Monero Eclipse Attack Targets Unreachable Nodes Behind NAT

A new Monero eclipse attack isolates unreachable nodes running behind a firewall or Network Address Translation (NAT), a group long considered safer than nodes with public IP addresses. Research accepted at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2026 shows an attacker can take over all 12 outgoing connections of a NAT-protected node ...