Bitcoin.org Warns of Expected Attacks Amid Upcoming Bitcoin Software Release
A new post on the open-source Bitcoin.org website indicates its contributors have reason to believe the online resource may be targeted by malicious actors following an upcoming software release by Bitcoin Core developers. Bitcoin.org contributor Cobra-Bitcoin published a post today in which he indicated that certain resources the website intends to post following the Bitcoin Core development update could be the target of unspecified "state-sponsored attackers". At issue, the post asserts, is that Bitcoin.org generally posts binaries, or executable software versions of Bitcoin....
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