BlockThreat - Week 35, 2019
Lightning | Parity | Siacoin | Retadup
Never a dull week in blockchain security! This week multiple critical vulnerabilities were patched in Bitcoin Lightning projects and the Parity Ethereum node software. Interesting news of French law enforcement agency using malware infrastructure against itself to disable 850,000 malicious miner instances. Also check out the detailed McAffee report covering the latest TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) used by cryptocurrency related malware and actors.
News
Capital One Hacker ‘Breached 30 Organizations And Mined Cryptocurrency,’ Claims DOJ - a recently released indictment alleges that the Capital One hacker used her access to compromised servers to mine cryptocurrency.
Bugs
CVEs assigned for lightning projects: please upgrade! - a mailing list notification about yet unpublished vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Lightning projects urging users to upgrade. Details of the three upcoming CVEs will be released on September 27th. Patches are available.
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