Critical ZCash Vulnerability Discovered by Whitehat Researcher Using Claude AI
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Tyler Warner
Summary
A whitehat security researcher named Taylor Hornby, hired by the ZCash team, discovered a critical vulnerability in Zcash's Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The exploit would have allowed an attacker to mint unlimited counterfeit ZEC tokens. The vulnerability had existed for four years before being discovered.
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The ZCash team hired a hacker to find an exploit in the ZCash protocol, and he exposed a glitch that has been out there for four years.
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