We are all recovering from last week’s epic Twitter hack so this week’s edition is full of research articles and workshop recordings to help you relax and recharge.
News
Woz is suing Youtube to get better at taking down “Bitcoin Giveaway” scams.
Malware
New malware framework from Lazarus APT which frequently targets cryptocurrency businesses. MATA: Multi-platform targeted malware framework. The malware supports Windows, Linux, and MacOS operating systems and has backdoor, process and file manipulation, proxy, and DLL injection capabilities.
Research
Ethereum Foundation’s Eth 2.0 Attacknets contest has the first winner who was able to break finality for 16 epochs! Details are now available here.
Ethereum mempool may have been intentionally manipulated in order to cause congestion and win over 1000 zero-bid auction on MakerDAO during March’s Black Thursday event.
Video recording of ISSTA 2020 Workshop on Smart Contract Analysis:
00:00:00 - Ethainter: A Smart Contract Security Analyzer for Compos…
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