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June 20, 2024

June 20, 2024

June 20, 2024

Kraken Security Update:

On June 9 2024, we received a Bug Bounty program alert from a security researcher. No specifics were initially disclosed, but their email claimed to find an “extremely critical” bug that allowed them to artificially inflate their balance on our platform.

— Nick Percoco (@c7five) June 19, 2024

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@c7five: Kraken Security Update: On June 9 2024, we received a Bug Bounty program alert from a security researcher. No specifics were initially disclosed, but their email claimed to find an “extremely critical” bug t...…

Beg bounty!

Outrageous and unprofessional work by @CertiK absolutely put more funds at risk than necessary, have valid exploit, steal funds, starts trying to report it 3 days later in which time they have stolen multiple times to "test their monitoring system" pic.twitter.com/aLG3mGusVF

— AndrewMohawk ᴺᵒ ˡᵒᵍˢ, ⁿᵒ ᶜʳᶦᵐᵉ (@AndrewMohawk) June 19, 2024

.@CertiK stole $3m from kraken, ransomed them for a bounty and refused to return cash, confirmed they did all this in a tweet, and is now moving all that money to https://t.co/KtLHPWJbT3 to protect it from being seized by the authorities

All this is publicly visible onchain!

— hype (@hype_eth) June 19, 2024


Cool blog post on reverse engineering rail ticketshttps://t.co/huHmBZlpCQ#reverseengineering pic.twitter.com/xqEJBKkuTT

— 0xor0ne (@0xor0ne) June 19, 2024


pic.twitter.com/yqLYVRJ0T9

— Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives (@darren_cullen) June 18, 2024


This Australian data scientist has some thoughts about AI and the current state of his industryhttps://t.co/9ryxFBHjiG pic.twitter.com/zUQIda1Qj1

— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) June 19, 2024


👀 pic.twitter.com/oAXzD6wfhk

— ghostblade (@65thsquare) June 18, 2024


14 yrs of Stuxnet. Its ‘417’ payload is still a master piece. Among other things, a striking example of the ‘ideal gas law’. By closing ~80% centrifuges, Stuxnet built up enough pressure to create UF6 depositions that damaged the rotors. I came up with this simple demonstration. pic.twitter.com/jJfgaQ8mri

— reversemode (@reversemode) June 18, 2024
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