Threat Pulse 62High
Qubic weak seed generation drains $1.4M from 1404 wallets
Severity 5PatchedconfirmedCrypto

Insufficient randomness in some Qubic wallet seed generation allowed brute-force of recovery seeds draining about $1.4 million across 1404 wallets.

What to do: Update to fixed wallet version 4.26.4 and regenerate seeds on secure devices.

· 18 days ago · Qubic wallet users · hacked.slowmist.io
Sourceshacked.slowmist.io
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@HuoAnWallet_ENverifiedOct 24, 04:29 UTC

The Qubic drain wasn't a hack of the chain, it was a hack of randomness. A flaw in the wallet software let recovery seeds be generated with weak entropy (Math.random() instead of a cryptographically secure RNG). That m

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