Litecoin Falls Victim to Denial-of-Service Attack, Successfully Reverses 13 Blocks
On Friday and Saturday, a series of events unfolded that led to a 13-block chain reorganization on the Litecoin network, effectively rewinding approximately 32 minutes of network activity. This was in response to an attack that leveraged a vulnerability within the Mimblewimble Extension Block (MWEB) protocol, allowing for invalid transactions to be temporarily validated. The attack was facilitate…
April 26, 2026, 8:34 a.m.