In late July and August 2023, a team of fellow researchers and I rushed to understand, write up and publish a serious cryptocurrency wallet creation issue in the Libbitcoin Explorer bx software tool that left victims exposed to remote & automated wide-scale theft of funds. The coordinated theft of assets that happened on 2023-07-12, during which bx user’s funds were targeted among with other weak wallet types, amounted to millions of dollars in damages across hundreds of victims and various...
