Litecoin targeted by hackers today | zero day bug exploited

It’s hack szn and Litecoin is the latest to be targeted after Aave and a number of DeFi protocols got hit

- Zero-day discovered in the MWEB privacy layer

- Coordinated DoS on major mining pools

- Attacker used the window to push invalid peg-outs from MWEB

MWEB = MimbleWimble Extension Blocks. It’s Litecoin’s optional privacy layer, activated via soft fork in May 2022, that lets users do confidential transactions

DoS = Denial of Service (common brute force hack)

Bridges / swap protocols that optimized for speed over block finality may have had double spends while bridges/protocols that waited for more confs are unaffected

Near Intents may have about $600k in exposure and THORChain may have had 1-2 swaps effected

Overall, this is the only known publicly reported $ exposure thusfar. There could be more after audits are conducted on potential trouble spends

DeFi protocols have lost over $750 million to exploits in 2026 through mid-April, including the $292 million Kelp DAO bridge drain on April 19 and a $285 million attack on Solana-based perpetuals platform Drift on April 1

This is all a reminder to stay SAFU in a time of unprecedented software attacks