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Supporters Offer 3 BTC Bounty After Critical BTCPay Server Exploit

BTCPay Server backers are dangling a 3 BTC reward to recover drained funds following a critical breach that likely involved AI.

Sofia Marek

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Supporters Offer 3 BTC Bounty After Critical BTCPay Server Exploit
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Key takeaways

  • Supporters offered up to 3 BTC to help recover assets after a critical BTCPay Server vulnerability.
  • BTCPay stated that AI tools might have been leveraged during the exploit.
  • Craig Raw and the Bitcoin Red Team fund were credited with discovering and reporting the flaw.

Backers of open-source payment processor BTCPay Server are dangling a bounty of up to 3 BTC to claw back funds after a critical software exploit.

AI Suspected in the Attack

The project publicly owned up to the security flaw after developer Craig Raw and the Bitcoin Red Team fund tipped them off. In its post-mortem, BTCPay pointed out that artificial intelligence tools might have been weaponized to spot or trigger the vulnerability.

Security breaches move fast. AI makes them hit even faster.

Why it matters

BTCPay Server keeps self-hosted merchant payments running across the entire Bitcoin ecosystem. If bad actors are using AI to sniff out zero-day bugs in open-source financial code, non-custodial tools face a much uglier fight. If you're a merchant running your own node, go patch your system immediately.

Source: The Block

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