Malware
New macOS Threat Served from Cryptocurrency Trading Platform - a new malware sample associated with North Korea’s Lazarus group acts as a cryptocurrency arbitrage trading platform called UnionCryptoTrader.
Research
SquirRL: Automating Attack Discovery on Blockchain Incentive Mechanisms with Deep Reinforcement Learning - a new framework to identify novel incentive attacks like selfish mining.
Improvements of the Balance Discovery Attack on Lightning Network Payment Channels - a new attack method using malformed payments to unmask balances of payment channels.
How DeFi cannibalizes PoS security - a research article outlines a new risk to less staking power available due to the popularity of DeFi platforms.
Mutation Testing for Smart Contracts - A step by step guide to using Vertigo to test smart contracts.
Metal Bitcoin Seed Storage Stress Test (Round III) - the latest round where Jameson Lopp burns and crushes hardware wallets.
Tools
RandomX Sniffer - a PoC tool to detect traces of runn…
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