Patched vulnerability could’ve crippled ETH over the past 2 years: Ethereum F...
The Ethereum Foundation has come clean about a security vulnerability first spotted in 2019 that could have brought the mainnet to a halt until the Berlin upgrade last month. The Ethereum Foundation has published a blog post outlining a potentially catastrophic vulnerability that could have resulted in the mainnet being brought down at a cost of less than five-figures up until the execution of the Berlin hardfork last month.A May 18 blog post describes the vulnerability as having posed “a severe threat against the Ethereum platform” until April’s upgrades allowed it to dodge the bullet.The....
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As you may have noticed, CoinMkt was down for a brief period of four hours, this morning, April 8, 2014. The reason for the downtime was the discovery of a vulnerability affecting the latest version of OpenSSL referred to as Heartbleed. You can read more about Heartbleedhere. The vulnerability was patched quickly, but to be safe please change your password if you have traded in the past 24 hours. We’d like to remind everyone that we recommend changing your password at regular intervals in order to create the safest possible environment for your funds.
Given the recent increase in Bitcoin ransomware attacks all over the world, security researchers have been trying to figure out which vulnerabilities have been exploited by hackers. As it turns out, the recent zero-day exploit in Flash is being used as part of the Magnitude exploit kit to distribute various forms of Bitcoin ransomware. Magnitude EK Uses Flash Zero-day Vulnerability. Just a few days ago, Adobe announced they had discovered a serious vulnerability in their Flash software package, which was patched as of yesterday morning. This prompt response by the company should avoid....
On February 10, the well-known developer of Cydia and iOS Jailbreak, Jay Freeman, otherwise known as Saurik, published a Twitter thread about a bug he found in the Layer-2 (L2) scaling protocol known as Optimism. According to Freeman, the vulnerability, which has been patched, could have allowed an attacker to create an infinite amount of tokens. Cydia Creator ‘Saurik’ Discovers Optimism L2 Vulnerability Jay Freeman is a prominent software developer who is well known for his iOS Jailbreak and Cydia tools. Freeman’s Cydia graphical user interface (GUI) was released in....