#Blockchain Vulnerabilities

Latest news on vulnerabilities found in blockchain protocols, decentralized applications, and cryptocurrency platforms.

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ForkLog 10 12.11.2020

Experts reveal how much money hackers stole from cryptocurrency users over nine years

Over the past nine years, from 2011 to 2020, cryptocurrency users lost assets totaling $7.6 billion as a result of 113 attacks and 23 fraudulent schemes. This is comparable to Monaco's GDP, according to Crystal Blockchain's analytics service.

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ForkLog 6 09.11.2020

Blockstream co-founder Gregory Maxwell reveals vulnerability in Bitcoin SV multisig

The multisignature system in Bitcoin SV does not secure users' assets, according to Blockstream co-founder Gregory Maxwell.

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ForkLog 9 05.11.2020

A user accidentally paid a $9,500 fee for a $120 transaction.

One of the Ethereum holders accidentally paid a fee that was 80 times the cost of the transaction. The error occurred during a transaction on the Uniswap decentralised exchange.

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ForkLog 14 04.11.2020

Axion project to relaunch after unauthorized withdrawal of 79 billion AXN tokens.

The Axion team announced an upcoming relaunch after one of the developers injected malicious code that allowed him to mint and sell 79 billion AXN tokens.

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ForkLog 12 20.10.2020

Trader loses about $1.1m in crypto after sending to the wrong address

An unknown user transferred about $1.1 million in AAVE tokens to the wrong address. The TokenOops service flagged the transaction.

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ForkLog 6 13.10.2020

BitBay bitcoin exchange experiences brief outage

On Monday, October 12, the BitBay cryptocurrency exchange was offline for nearly two hours.

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ForkLog 14 09.10.2020

LND Lightning Network operators urged to update urgently over vulnerability

The Lightning Labs team urged the community to upgrade to the latest LND client version for the Lightning Network due to the discovered vulnerability.

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ForkLog 10 23.09.2020

Lightning Network vulnerability could allow bitcoins to be withdrawn from circulation

The introduction of Wumbo channels to the Lightning Network created a new vulnerability. This drew the attention of Joost Jager, a developer working on Bitcoin scalability solutions.

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ForkLog 8 18.09.2020

Media: Moscow’s blockchain voting system published distorted data for about 16 hours

The Moscow municipal-elections e-voting observation system malfunctioned. As a result, for about 16 hours, extracts from the blockchain system were published with distorted data, according to Open Media.

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ForkLog 9 11.09.2020

Developer flags potential vulnerability in Ethereum 2.0

Lior Yaffe, co-founder of Jelurida and a leading developer of Ardor and Nxt, has identified a potential threat in the Ethereum 2.0 testnet. Decrypt reports this.

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ForkLog 8 09.09.2020

Storj developer reveals serious Bitcoin Core bug discovered in 2018

Storj protocol developer Braydon Fuller described a previously unknown vulnerability in Bitcoin Core software to the wider public. The bug could allow attackers to steal funds, delay payments and even split the blockchain into conflicting chains. CoinDesk reports this.

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ForkLog 6 09.09.2020

User turns $200 into $250,000 thanks to bug in DeFi protocol Soft Yearn

A bug in the DeFi protocol Soft Yearn (SYFI) allowed an anonymous user to turn the invested 0.5 ETH into 740 ETH.

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