CoW Swap, the decentralized trade aggregator utilized by Vitalik Buterin to promote thousands and thousands of {dollars} price of Ethereum, is warning customers to keep away from interacting with its website after struggling a front-end assault.
“We are currently experiencing an issue with the CoW Swap frontend,” the agency posted on X earlier in the present day, including, “While we are investigating, please DO NOT use CoW Swap.”
CoW Swap later revealed that it was sufferer to “a DNS hijacking at 14:54 UTC.”
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UPDATE: CoW Swap skilled a DNS hijacking at 14:54 UTC (roughly 90 minutes in the past).
The CoW Protocol backend and APIs weren’t impacted, however we now have paused them briefly as a precaution.
We are actually actively working to resolve the scenario. Please proceed to…
— CoW DAO (@CoWSwap) April 14, 2026
The most recent replace from CoW Swap on the front-end assault.
It stated, “The CoW Protocol backend and APIs were not impacted, but we have paused them temporarily as a precaution.”
“We are now actively working to resolve the situation. Please continue to refrain from using swap dot cow dot fi until we confirm that it is safe to use,” CoW Swap added.
Crypto safety agency Blockaid additionally claimed its alert system was capable of detect “a front-end attack,” and warned customers with linked wallets to “revoke approvals and avoid any interactions with the dApp immediately.”
Vitalik Buterin strikes thousands and thousands by way of CoW Swap
CoW has beforehand been utilized by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin to promote 3,100 Ethereum, which was price over $6.1 million on the time.
It was built-in with Aave Protocol final December. Days later, a delegate known as “EzR3aL” famous that the partnership resulted in funds being diverted away from the Aave treasury.
A months-long governance battle adopted.
The partnership would supposedly provide “better prices… and protection against MEV attacks” and permit customers to “repay borrow positions using their collateral, swap between different collateral types, change their debt positions, or withdraw and swap assets.”
CoW Swap’s integration additionally noticed a extra unlucky swap that concerned a crypto consumer swapping $50 million of (Aave-wrapped) USDT to only $35,000 of (Aave-wrapped) AAVE.
Each CoW Swap and Aave pledged to return the charges.
