Digital Wallet
By Steven Anderson
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How the Exploit Actually Worked. The attackers got in by exploiting a vulnerability that let them grab credentials for LND —…
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Bitcoin Red Team's Role and the AI Security Push. The Bitcoin Red Team is a volunteer group. No corporate backing, no big budget.
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What Merchants Should Do Right Now. BTCPay Server's guidance is direct: report the theft to local authorities if you were affected.
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BTCPay Server is dangling up to $190,000 for anyone who can help recover bitcoin stolen in a recent exploit. Anyone. Including, apparently, whoever took it.
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The open-source payment processor confirmed the breach and said it's offering a bounty equal to 10% of whatever funds get recovered, capped at 3 BTC — worth roughly $190,000 at…
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The attackers got in by exploiting a vulnerability that let them grab credentials for LND — Lightning Network Daemon, the widely-used software that merchants run to operate a…
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Among the confirmed victims: Foundation, the hardware wallet manufacturer, and Citadel21, a bitcoin-focused publication. Neither has said publicly how much they lost.
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BTCPay Server said exchanges, blockchain analytics firms, and law enforcement are all now involved in tracing the stolen bitcoin.
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Two researchers got rewarded for doing the right thing. Developer Craig Raw and the Bitcoin Red Team each received a donation of 0.
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See also: H100 Grabs 2,455 Bitcoin and Becomes Europes Second-Largest Corporate Treasury
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The Bitcoin Red Team is a volunteer group. No corporate backing, no big budget. Their focus is pointing AI models at bitcoin codebases to find weaknesses before bad actors do.
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It's worth sitting with that for a second. A volunteer group using AI-assisted code review caught a vulnerability that, once exploited, led to a six-figure theft affecting named…
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BTCPay Server, for its part, is now pushing merchants hard on cold storage. The advice isn't new, but the breach makes it feel more urgent: keep funds in cold storage, move…
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Hot wallets are convenient. They're also, pretty much by definition, exposed. The LND exploit is a reminder that convenience in bitcoin infrastructure carries real financial risk…
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See also: Ethereum Holders Tap ASDeFi for $7,000 Monthly Earnings
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