Litecoin Network Faces Denial-of-Service Attack, Successfully Reverses 13 Blocks
On Friday and Saturday, a chain reorganization of 13 blocks was initiated on the Litecoin network, effectively reversing 32 minutes of network activity after an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the Mimblewimble Extension Block (MWEB) protocol, enabling a denial-of-service attack on major mining pools and allowing invalid MWEB transactions to bypass nodes that had not been updated, before theā¦
April 26, 2026, 8:34 a.m.