Bitcoin Core

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2020
INVDoS, a severe DoS issue in Bitcoin core remained undisclosed for two years

The INVDoS (Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service)Attack would have allowed hackers to crash Bitcoin nodes and alternative chains. Two years ago, the Bitcoin protocol engineer Braydon Fuller. discovered a major uncontrolled memory resource consumption denial-of-service vulnerability (INVDoS), tracked as CVE-2018-17145, that affected the peer-to-peer network code of three implementations of Bitcoin and other blockchains, including Litecoin, Namecoin, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2016
Bitcoin.org warns state-sponsored attacks against the Bitcoin Core

The organization that controls the development of the Bitcoin software warns users that nation-state actors may hit the upcoming Bitcoin Core release. The organization that controls the development of the Bitcoin system, Bitcoin.org, has warned of possible cyber attacks coordinated by nation-state attackers. Bitcoin Core is the open source client for Bitcoin, the version Bitcoin Core […]