Litecoin is currently in the spotlight following reports of a potential zero-day exploit, sparking concerns in the crypto community. In light of this, Litecoin developers have issued an update outlining what happened. In a five-point tweet, Litecoin's official X account outlined the sequence of events in the incident.
Litecoin stated that a zero-day bug caused a DoS attack that disrupted major mining pools. Subsequently, non-updated mining nodes allowed an invalid MWEB transaction, allowing them to peg out coins to third-party DEXs. A 13-block reorg reversed the invalid transactions and they will not be included in the main chain. The Litecoin team stated that all valid transactions during that period were unaffected.
Litecoin update:
• A zero-day bug caused a DoS attack that disrupted major mining pools.
• Non-updated mining nodes allowed an invalid MWEB transaction allowing them to peg out coins to third party DEX's
• A 13-block reorg reversed those invalid transactions — they will not…
The bug has now been fully patched, and the Litecoin network continues to operate normally. A new core version was released subsequently, including important security updates.
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