Crypto Trading Firm Wintermute Loses $160 Million in Hacking Incident

In what's the latest crypto heist to target the decentralized finance DeFi space, hackers have stolen digital assets worth around $160 million from crypto trading firm Wintermute. The hack involved a series of unauthorized transactions that transferred USD Coin, Binance USD, Tether USD, Wrapped...

CVE-2022-31006

CVE-2022-31006 affects Hyperledger Indy’s indy-node server. In vulnerable versions, an attacker can exhaust the ledger’s allowed client connections, causing a denial of service where the ledger remains functionally operable but unavailable to others until the attack ends. The impact is availabili...

CVE-2022-31006 Hyperledger Indy DOS vulnerability

indy-node is the server portion of Hyperledger Indy, a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized identity. In vulnerable versions of indy-node, an attacker can max out the number of client connections allowed by the ledger, leaving the ledger unable to be used for its intended purpose...

Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security

Stewart Baker discusses why the industry-norm responsible disclosure for software vulnerabilities fails for cryptocurrency software. Why can’t the cryptocurrency industry solve the problem the way the software and hardware industries do, by patching and updating security as flaws are found? Two...

PYSEC-2022-265

Indy Node is the server portion of a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized identity. In versions 1.12.4 and prior, the pool-upgrade request handler in Indy-Node allows an improperly authenticated attacker to remotely execute code on nodes within the network. The pool-upgrade request...

Remote code execution

Indy Node is the server portion of a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized identity. In versions 1.12.4 and prior, the pool-upgrade request handler in Indy-Node allows an improperly authenticated attacker to remotely execute code on nodes within the network. The pool-upgrade request...

CVE-2022-31020 Remote code execution in Indy's NODE_UPGRADE transaction

Indy Node is the server portion of a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized identity. In versions 1.12.4 and prior, the pool-upgrade request handler in Indy-Node allows an improperly authenticated attacker to remotely execute code on nodes within the network. The pool-upgrade request...

CVE-2022-31020

Hyperledger Indy-Node (server portion of the Indy ledger) contains a remote code execution vulnerability in the pool-upgrade request handler for versions ≤ 1.12.4. An attacker could remotely execute code on nodes in the network due to improper authentication of pool-upgrade transactions. Indy-Nod...

[Security Nation] Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon on Nmap, the Open-Source Security Scanner

!\Security Nation\ Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon on Nmap, the Open-Source Security Scannerhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo-2.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon, author of the widely used open-source Nmap Security Scanner. On...

FBI Warns Investors to Take Precautions with Decentralized Financial Platforms

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Monday warned of cyber criminals increasingly exploiting flaws in decentralized finance DeFi platforms to plunder cryptocurrency. "The FBI has observed cyber criminals exploiting vulnerabilities in the smart contracts governing DeFi platforms to ste...

BitTorrent Protocol

BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing P2P, which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner. This protection can be used to detect the BitTorrent Protocol handshake, and with the packet capture, allows to extrac...

If Bitcoiners Want Bitcoin To Make It Big, They Need DeFi

By Owais Sultan In the last couple of years, decentralized finance and Bitcoin have exploded into mainstream awareness. From 2020 to… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: If Bitcoiners Want Bitcoin To Make It Big, They Need DeFi...

Design/Logic Flaw

Solana Pay is a protocol and set of reference implementations that enable developers to incorporate decentralized payments into their apps and services. When a Solana Pay transaction is located using a reference key, it may be checked to represent a transfer of the desired amount to the recipient...

CVE-2022-35917 Weakness in Transfer Validation Logic in @solana/pay

Solana Pay is a protocol and set of reference implementations that enable developers to incorporate decentralized payments into their apps and services. When a Solana Pay transaction is located using a reference key, it may be checked to represent a transfer of the desired amount to the recipient...

CVE-2022-35917

CVE-2022-35917 affects Solana Pay’s transfer validation logic (validateTransfer) used when locating a transaction via a reference key. The edge case could cause the validation to approve multiple transfers instead of a single intended transfer. The issue is mitigated by upgrading to version 0.2.1...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: syncthing-1.20.3-2.fc36

Syncthing replaces other file synchronization services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet. Using syncthing, that control is...

Fedora: Security Advisory for golang-github-hashicorp-serf (FEDORA-2022-ea8f4e232d)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Researchers Warns of Increase in Phishing Attacks Using Decentralized IPFS Network

The decentralized file system solution known as IPFS is becoming the new "hotbed" for hosting phishing sites, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity firm Trustwave SpiderLabs, which disclosed specifics of the spam campaigns, said it identified no less than 3,000 emails containing IPFS phishing UR...

Fedora: Security Advisory for golang-github-hashicorp-serf (FEDORA-2022-3969b64d4b)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

PYSEC-2022-43143

OpenZeppelin Contracts for Cairo is a library for contract development written in Cairo for StarkNet, a decentralized ZK Rollup. Version 0.2.0 is vulnerable to an error that renders account contracts unusable on live networks. This issue affects all accounts vanilla and ethereum flavors in the...