WordPress GoUrl Bitcoin Payment Gateway & Paid Downloads & Membership plugin <= 1.6.6 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Nabil Irawan Patchstack Alliance in WordPress Plugin GoUrl Bitcoin Payment Gateway & Paid Downloads & Membership versions = 1.6.6...

WordPress plugin GoUrl Bitcoin Payment Gateway & Paid Downloads & Membership Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists...

Claude AI chatbot abused to launch “cybercrime spree”

Anthropic—the company behind the widely renowned coding chatbot, Claude—says it uncovered a large-scale extortion operation in which cybercriminals abused Claude to automate and orchestrate sophisticated attacks. The company issued a Threat Intelligence report in which it describes several...

MAL-2025-15751 Malicious code in bitcoin-osp (npm)

The package bitcoin-osp was found to contain malicious code...

Malicious code in bitcoin-url (npm)

The package bitcoin-url was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-15753 Malicious code in bitcoin-url (npm)

The package bitcoin-url was found to contain malicious code...

Malicious code in bitcoin-sweep (npm)

The package bitcoin-sweep was found to contain malicious code...

Malicious code in bitcoin-osp (npm)

The package bitcoin-osp was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-15752 Malicious code in bitcoin-sweep (npm)

The package bitcoin-sweep was found to contain malicious code...

Apple ID scam leads to $27,000 in-person theft of Ohio man

You've probably heard about people scamming from halfway around the world, but sometimes they turn up at your door. That's what happened in May, when 67 year-old Robert Wise of Ohio received a text telling him that his Apple ID had been compromised. It had been used at an Apple store for a $213...

Wrapless: the Trustless Lending Protocol on Top of Bitcoin

This paper presents Wrapless -- a lending protocol that enables the collateralization of bitcoins without requiring a trusted wrapping mechanism. The protocol facilitates a "loan channel" on the Bitcoin blockchain, allowing bitcoins to be locked as collateral for loans issued on any blockchain th...

The Redundancy of Full Nodes in Bitcoin: a Network-Theoretic Demonstration of Miner-Centric Propagation Topologies

This paper formally examines the network structure of Bitcoin CORE BTC and Bitcoin Satoshi Vision BSV using complex graph theory to demonstrate that home-hosted full nodes are incapable of participating in or influencing the propagation topology. Leveraging established models such as scale-free...

Applications of Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Bitcoin

This paper explores how zero-knowledge proofs can enhance Bitcoin's functionality and privacy. First, we consider Proof-of-Reserve schemes: by using zk-STARKs, a custodian can prove its Bitcoin holdings are more than a predefined threshold X, without revealing addresses or actual balances. We...

Efficient Blockchain-Based Steganography Via Backcalculating Generative Adversarial Network

Blockchain-based steganography enables data hiding via encoding the covert data into a specific blockchain transaction field. However, previous works focus on the specific field-embedding methods while lacking a consideration on required field-generation embedding. In this paper, we propose a...

Ross Ulbricht Got a $31 Million Donation From a Dark Web Dealer, Crypto Tracers Suspect

Crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis says the mysterious 300-bitcoin donation to the pardoned Silk Road creator appears to have come from someone associated with a different defunct black market: AlphaBay...

Iranian Hacker Pleads Guilty in $19 Million Robbinhood Ransomware Attack on Baltimore

An Iranian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. over his involvement in an international ransomware and extortion scheme involving the Robbinhood ransomware. Sina Gholinejad aka Sina Ghaaf, 37, and his co-conspirators are said to have breached the computer networks of various organizations in...

CVE-2024-52913

In Bitcoin Core before 0.21.0, an attacker could prevent a node from seeing a specific unconfirmed transaction, because transaction re-requests are mishandled...

CVE-2024-52917

Bitcoin Core before 22.0 has a miniupnp infinite loop in which it allocates memory on the basis of random data received over the network, e.g., large M-SEARCH replies from a fake UPnP device...

CVE-2024-51826

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Jandal Bitcoin Payments bitcoin-payments allows DOM-Based XSS.This issue affects Bitcoin Payments: from n/a through = 1.4.2...

CVE-2024-35202

Bitcoin Core before 25.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service blocktxn message-handling assertion and node exit by including transactions in a blocktxn message that are not committed to in a block's merkle root. FillBlock can be called twice for one PartiallyDownloadedBlock instan...