Litecoin Falls Victim to Denial-of-Service Attack, Successfully Reverses 13 Blocks
Late Friday and Saturday, a 13-block chain reorganization occurred on the LTC network, reversing approximately 32 minutes of network activity after attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Mimblewimble Extension Block protocol. The bug enabled a denial-of-service attack on major mining pools, allowing invalid MWEB transactions to bypass nodes that had not been updated before the network's longe…
April 26, 2026, 8:34 a.m.