Litecoin Network Faces Denial-of-Service Attack, Successfully Reverses 13 Blocks
On Friday and Saturday, the Litecoin network experienced a significant disruption due to a denial-of-service attack, which rewound approximately 32 minutes of network activity. The attack exploited a vulnerability in the Mimblewimble Extension Block (MWEB) protocol, allowing invalid transactions to bypass nodes that had not been updated. However, the network's longest valid chain eventually corre…
April 26, 2026, 8:34 a.m.