What Mastodon’s Critical Bug Fixes Say About Crypto’s Security Vulnerabilities
Crypto protocols are often multi-billion dollar bug bounties, for better or worse.
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Jul 10, 2023 at 6:31 p.m. UTC
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In Praise of White-Hat Hackers, but Overreliance Is Foolish
A white hat Nomad exploiter says stronger incentives are needed to reward the good Samaritans who help protocols identify and patch vulnerabilities.
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Nov 7, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
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Rogue Actor Disrupts Lightning Network With a Single Transaction
The individual exploited a Bitcoin block parsing bug that had a downstream effect on certain Lightning nodes.
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Nov 2, 2022 at 5:27 a.m. UTC
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Osmosis Chain Halted Amid Possible $5M Exploit
The Osmosis DEX has been halted for emergency maintenance as developers investigate the extent of a liquidity pool exploit.
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Jun 8, 2022 at 8:24 a.m. UTC
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Solana Halted by Bug Linked to Certain Cold Storage Transactions
Validators restarted the network after four hours of downtime by disabling the so-called “durable nonce transactions” that have found favor among some exchanges.
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Jun 2, 2022 at 12:47 a.m. UTC
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Convex Finance Bug Causes CVX Token to Sink on Forced Token Unlock
After a smart contract exploit, locked CVX tokens flooded the market, dragging down prices.
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Mar 4, 2022 at 10:06 p.m. UTC
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ETH 2.0 Staking Platform Discovers Multimillion-Dollar Bug in Rivals’ Code
StakeWise is a small fish in the staking pond, but it made its presence felt with a bug report that put rival Rocket Pool’s launch on hold.
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Oct 6, 2021 at 8:14 p.m. UTC
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Ethereum’s Most Popular Software Client Issues Hotfix to High Severity Bug
The release was posted to GitHub at 07:08 UTC Tuesday. Details of the fixes weren't immediately disclosed.
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Aug 24, 2021 at 7:45 a.m. UTC
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Bug Found in Decoy Algorithm for Privacy Coin Monero
"This does not reveal anything about addresses or transaction amounts ... This bug persists in the official wallet code today," Monero said.
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Jul 27, 2021 at 6:36 a.m. UTC
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Several Stellar Nodes Go Offline, Team Says Network ‘Still Functioning’ Though Some Transactions Fail
The node outage has led to some exchanges halting withdrawals.
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Apr 6, 2021 at 5:20 p.m. UTC
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