Litecoin Falls Victim to Denial-of-Service Attack, Successfully Reverses 13 Blocks
Late Friday and Saturday, a 13-block reorganization occurred on the LTC network at $55.51, effectively rewinding 32 minutes of network activity after attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Mimblewimble Extension Block (MWEB) protocol, allowing invalid transactions to bypass nodes that had not been updated. A denial-of-service attack against major mining pools enabled the invalid transactions …
April 26, 2026, 8:34 a.m.