Litecoin Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in DoS Attack, Disrupts Major Mining Pools

A critical zero-day vulnerability in the Litecoin network was actively exploited to launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, temporarily disrupting operations across major mining pools before developers issued a full patch. Security researchers confirmed the flaw allowed threat actors to inject an invalid MWEB (MimbleWimble Extension Block) transaction into unpatched nodes, triggering a cascade of network disruptions that affected mining pool stability and briefly undermined transaction integrity on the chain.

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