BlockThreat - Week 49, 2019
Lazarus | Lightning Network | Breaking Bitcoin
Malware
- New macOS Threat Served from Cryptocurrency Trading Platform - a new malware sample associated with North Korea’s Lazarus group acts as a cryptocurrency arbitrage trading platform called UnionCryptoTrader.
Research
- SquirRL: Automating Attack Discovery on Blockchain Incentive Mechanisms with Deep Reinforcement Learning - a new framework to identify novel incentive attacks like selfish mining.
- Improvements of the Balance Discovery Attack on Lightning Network Payment Channels - a new attack method using malformed payments to unmask balances of payment channels.
- How DeFi cannibalizes PoS security - a research article outlines a new risk to less staking power available due to the popularity of DeFi platforms.
- Mutation Testing for Smart Contracts - A step by step guide to using Vertigo to test smart contracts.
- Metal Bitcoin Seed Storage Stress Test (Round III) - the latest round where Jameson Lopp burns and crushes hardware wallets.
Tools
- RandomX Sniffer - a PoC tool to detect traces of running RandomX ransomware algorithm in CPU registers.
Media
- Breaking Bitcoin 2019 - videos from the conference are now available.