Counterfeit Bug in Zcash found via Opus 4.8
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A summary of the interesting content that I consumed this past week…
What I Read This Week: a summary of the content that I consumed this past week… Caught My Eye… 1) Counterfeit Bug in Zcash found via Opus 4.8 On May 29, security researcher Taylor Hornby disclosed a critical bug in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool, the privacy coin’s most advanced transaction layer. The flaw, present since Orchard launched on May 31, 2022, would allow an attacker to generate counterfeit ZEC within the pool without leaving any visible on-chain signature. Hornby found it using Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 model, running inside a custom audit-agent framework he built. What took years…
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