Litecoin Network Hit by Zero-Day Attack in Coordinated Double-Spend Operation

Litecoin suffered an attack this weekend. A zero-day vulnerability was exploited in a coordinated operation that knocked major mining pools offline, triggered a 13-block reorganization of the chain, and enabled double-spend attacks across multiple cross-chain swapping protocols. The attack targeted a bug in Litecoin’s MWEB privacy transaction layer. Non-upgraded mining nodes accepted an invalid MWEB […] Read The Full Article Litecoin Network Hit by Zero-Day Attack in Coordinated Double-Spend Operation On Coin Edition.