By Henry Birge-Lee, Grace Cimaszewski, Liang Wang, Cyrill Krähenbühl, Kerstin Fagerstrom, and Prateek Mittal Today we are announcing the development of a new open source project by our research group at Princeton University designed to strengthen certificate issuance against Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing attacks. Recent years have seen an uptick in a very powerful […]
Attackers exploit fundamental flaw in the web’s security to steal $2 million in cryptocurrency
March 9, 2022 by
By Henry Birge-Lee, Liang Wang, Grace Cimaszewski, Jennifer Rexford and Prateek Mittal On Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, attackers stole approximately $2 million worth of cryptocurrency from users of the Korean crypto exchange KLAYswap. This theft, which was detailed in a Korean-language blog post by the security firm S2W, exploited systemic vulnerabilities in the Internet’s routing […]