Critical Zcash Vulnerability Found and Fixed
2026-06-08T19:23:43Z•33ff5612df428341c693f85c0ef647755b6fde6271ec3785be04f60440ed4d6d
Melissa-HathawayTaylor-Hornbyaccount-takeoverai-enabled-vuln-discoveryai-wormanthropicbitlockerchatbot-abusecryptocurrencyinflation-bugllmmalwaremeta-aimicrosoftmythosorchardpatchproject-glasswingresponsible-disclosurevulnerabilityvulnerability-disclosurezcashzero-knowledge-proofs
What happened
Bruce Schneier summarizes multiple high-impact security stories: a critical vulnerability in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool (discovered by Taylor Hornby) allowed attackers to feed malformed inputs that could be accepted by the zero-knowledge proof system, potentially minting ZEC from nothing — the flaw has been found and fixed. Other notable items: Anthropic’s Project Glasswing/Mythos is surfacing a large number of (mostly unpatched) software vulnerabilities; researchers prototyped an AI-powered worm that carries an LLM; attackers abused Meta’s AI support chatbot to perform Instagram account-tw
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