🐛 ‘Critical’ vulnerability in Beam wallet could have put funds at risk, devs say after fix
Beam's development team announced in a Medium post the discovery of a bug in the application layer that could allow for "modified transactions" from an attacker sent directly to a wallet. The bug was not related to the Mimblewimble technology the privacy token is centered around. Beam CTO Alex Romanov said in an interview with CoinDesk that the patch was relatively simple and released in a manner to protect clients from the vulnerability.
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