Litecoin Suffers Denial-of-Service Attack, Successfully Reverses 13 Blocks
Late Friday and Saturday, a series of events unfolded on the Litecoin network, beginning with a denial-of-service attack that targeted major mining pools, exploiting a vulnerability in the Mimblewimble Extension Block (MWEB) protocol. This allowed for invalid transactions to be processed by nodes that had not yet updated. However, the network's longest valid chain eventually corrected these trans…
April 26, 2026, 8:34 a.m.