0xB10C on Nostr: In January, while investigating a misbehaving client on the Bitcoin P2P network, I ...
In January, while investigating a misbehaving client on the Bitcoin P2P network, I found a vulnerability in ViaBTC's SPV mining code that allowed a remote attacker to waste their 60 EH/s hashrate by sending a single, crafted Bitcoin P2P message.
https://b10c.me/blog/012-viabtc-spv-vulnerability-disclosure/Published at
2024-03-20 13:58:08Event JSON
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"content": "In January, while investigating a misbehaving client on the Bitcoin P2P network, I found a vulnerability in ViaBTC's SPV mining code that allowed a remote attacker to waste their 60 EH/s hashrate by sending a single, crafted Bitcoin P2P message.\n\nhttps://b10c.me/blog/012-viabtc-spv-vulnerability-disclosure/",
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