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Evaluating Solidity support in AI coding assistants
By Artem Dinaburg AI-enabled code assistants (like GitHub’s Copilot, Continue.dev, and Tabby) are making software development faster and more productive. Unfortunately, these tools are often bad at Solidity. So we decided to ...

Killing Filecoin nodes
By Simone Monica In January, we identified and reported a vulnerability in the Lotus and Venus clients of the Filecoin network that allowed an attacker to remotely crash a node and trigger ...

Blackwire Labs AI Cybersecurity Platform Incorporates Blockchain to Validate Data
Blackwire Labs launched a platform that combines generative artificial intelligence (AI) with blockchain technologies to provide cybersecurity teams with recommendations based on a trusted data source that is immutable ...

Election Security: Here’s What We Should Really Be Worried About
Rather than buying into unfounded claims of how fragile our election technology is, perhaps we should recognize its proven strengths and focus on improving from there ...

Blockchain Identity Management: A Complete Guide
Introduction Traditional identity verification methods show their age, often proving susceptible to data breaches and inefficiencies. Blockchain emerges as a beacon of hope in this scenario, heralding a new era of enhanced ...

Squarespace Hacked — DeFi Wallets Drained (Imaginary Money Stolen)
DeFAIL: Cryptocurrency fans lose their worthless tokens via phishing attacks on decentralized finance sites ...

Brothers Indicted for Stealing $25 Million of Ethereum in 12 Seconds
It took two brothers who went to MIT months to plan how they were going to steal, launder and hide millions of dollars in cryptocurrency -- and only 12 seconds to actually ...

Using benchmarks to speed up Echidna
By Ben Siraphob During my time as a Trail of Bits associate last summer, I worked on optimizing the performance of Echidna, Trail of Bits’ open-source smart contract fuzzer, written in Haskell ...

Elliptic Shows How an AI Model Can Identify Bitcoin Laundering
The blockchain analysis company is using a deep learning model, new AI techniques, and a massive dataset to better detect and track money laundering on a Bitcoin blockchain ...

Curvance: Invariants unleashed
By Nat Chin Welcome to our deep dive into the world of invariant development with Curvance. We’ve been building invariants as part of regular code review assessments for more than 6 years ...