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#Blockchain Vulnerabilities

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

Account abstraction angst: how the Pectra upgrade made life easier for hackers
ForkLog 77 29.05.2025

Account abstraction angst: how the Pectra upgrade made life easier for hackers

Disclaimer: to fully grasp the technical aspects, we recommend reading materials on account abstraction and the Pectra upgrade.  Beyond a boost to Ethereum’s price, the May Pectra upgrade brought expanded functionality and improvements to the ecosystem. Among other things, it enhanced account abstraction (AA): a new type of transaction appeared, allowing ordinary addresses to function […]
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Solana Addresses Potential Vulnerability
ForkLog 6 05.05.2025

Solana Addresses Potential Vulnerability

The Solana Foundation and Jito teams directly contacted validators to address a discovered vulnerability. The bug was identified by Anza specialists. info on ithttps://t.co/XlfHriQWNl — Haiku (@H8KUcom) May 4, 2025 The issue concerned the ZK ElGamal proof program and theoretically affected confidential tokens issued under the Token-2022 program. The bug involved certain algebraic components not […]
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Hacker Targets XRP Owners via JavaScript Library
ForkLog 89 23.04.2025

Hacker Targets XRP Owners via JavaScript Library

A malicious actor compromised the official SDK stack for the XRP Ledger by installing a backdoor to steal cryptocurrency in a JavaScript library. The vulnerability was discovered by experts at Aikido Security. We just published our technical breakdown https://t.co/aAvSN2a68S — Aikido Security (@AikidoSecurity) April 22, 2025 On April 21, security researcher Charlie Eriksen noticed that […]
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Critical Vulnerability Found in Bitcoin Wallet Chips
ForkLog 156 16.04.2025

Critical Vulnerability Found in Bitcoin Wallet Chips

A popular microcontroller used in billions of IoT devices and crypto wallets contains serious flaws that threaten bitcoin theft. This was reported by experts from Crypto Deep Tech. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-27840 in the NIST database, affects the ESP32 chip, used for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The bug allows attackers to permanently infect microcontrollers […]
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Binance Resumes Withdrawals Following AWS Outage
ForkLog 30 15.04.2025

Binance Resumes Withdrawals Following AWS Outage

The cryptocurrency exchange Binance has resumed withdrawals, which were temporarily halted due to a disruption at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center. The team is working to fully restore the platform’s operations. All services are starting to recover and resume. Withdrawals have also reopened. Please note that some services might experience delays while the […]
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Ledger Identifies Vulnerability in Trezor Wallets
ForkLog 81 13.03.2025

Ledger Identifies Vulnerability in Trezor Wallets

The hardware cryptocurrency wallet manufacturer Trezor has addressed a vulnerability in its Safe 3 and Safe 5 models. The issue was identified by the research team of its competitor, Ledger, as reported by the company’s CFO, Charles Guillemet. At @Ledger, you might know that we have the @DonjonLedger, our dedicated team constantly conducting open security […]
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Outdated 1inch Smart Contract Vulnerability Leads to $5 Million Loss, Hacker Returns Assets
ForkLog 30 07.03.2025

Outdated 1inch Smart Contract Vulnerability Leads to $5 Million Loss, Hacker Returns Assets

On March 5, the 1inch team identified a vulnerability in the outdated Fusion v1 smart contract. The flaw resulted in losses of 2.4 million USDT and 1276 wETH (~$2.7 million), according to the company SlowMist. March 10, 2025 | 13:48Update: In comments to ForkLog, 1inch lawyers clarified that the attack targeted specific resolvers (market makers) […]
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Bybit Exchange Suffers $1.46 Billion Loss in Hack
ForkLog 46 21.02.2025

Bybit Exchange Suffers $1.46 Billion Loss in Hack

Cryptocurrency detective ZachXBT reported suspicious outflows exceeding $1.46 billion from Bybit accounts. Shortly thereafter, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou confirmed suspicions of a hack. Bybit ETH multisig cold wallet just made a transfer to our warm wallet about 1 hr ago. It appears that this specific transaction was musked, all the signers saw the musked UI […]
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Ripple Explains XRP Ledger Outage
ForkLog 25 05.02.2025

Ripple Explains XRP Ledger Outage

On February 4th, the XRP Ledger network resumed operations after an outage lasting over an hour, confirmed Ripple’s CTO David Schwartz. The network is now recovering. We don’t know exactly what caused the issue yet. Super-preliminary observation: It looked like consensus was running but validations were not being published, causing the network to drift apart. […]
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Canadian Accused of Stealing $65 Million from KyberSwap and Indexed Finance
ForkLog 9 04.02.2025

Canadian Accused of Stealing $65 Million from KyberSwap and Indexed Finance

U.S. authorities have charged Canadian Andean Medjedovic with fraud, hacking, attempted extortion, and money laundering in connection with the theft of approximately $65 million from DeFi projects KyberSwap and Indexed Finance. In October 2021, the accused allegedly exploited a vulnerability in the rebalancing mechanism of Indexed Finance’s smart contract code, using “hundreds of millions of […]
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Ethereum Developers Address Vulnerability in Leading Client
ForkLog 19 31.01.2025

Ethereum Developers Address Vulnerability in Leading Client

The team behind the Ethereum client Geth, written in the Go programming language, has released version 1.14.13, codenamed Schwarzschild. ?PSA: go-ethereum emergency release? We released v1.14.13 today which fixes an issue introduced in 1.14.0. If you are running a version of geth that 1.14 or later, please update to the newest version. Nodes running v1.13.x […]
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ChatGPT Faces Another Global Outage
ForkLog 11 27.12.2024

ChatGPT Faces Another Global Outage

On December 26, ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s API experienced their second outage this month. The services were down for over four hours. Most of ChatGPT, the API, and Sora have been down for a couple of hours and we’re sorry for the trouble this is causing. We’ve identified the issue and have started recovery. We […]
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