Quiet weeks like this one are great to catch up on a number of excellent research articles and enjoy another occasion when the good side wins.
News
A join effort by Binance’s Sentry Team and the Ukrainian Cyber Police led to the arrests a gang responsible for money laundering and ransomware operations.
Scams
Malware
Prometei botnet targeting vulnerable Windows hosts to spread Monero miner.
FritzFrog botnet targeting weak SSH logins to spread Monero miner.
Vulnerabilities
Samourai Wallet identified vulnerabilities in Wasabi Wallet’s CoinJoin feature which may impact transaction anonymity. No additional details about the vulnerabilities were disclosed.
The latest update from Beacon Fuzz project includes multiple overflow and parsing errors in the upcoming Eth2 client.
Another DeFi project, xSNXa, had to shutdown after a vulnerability was discovered and responsibly disclosed by samczun.
Research
A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation blog post by V…
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