Josh Swihart

AI Is Helping Discover Tech Vulnerabilities—And Zcash Is Just the Latest Example

Researcher Who Found Zcash Bug with Opus 4.8 Adds Monero to His Audit Queue Security engineer Taylor Hornby, who recently used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 AI model to uncover a critical vulnerability in Zcash, stated that he intends to add Monero (XMR) and other privacy-focused cryptocurrencies to

ZEC 财库公司回应无限增发漏洞风波 Cypherpunk 发文称，所有软件都存在漏洞，比特币历史上也曾因漏洞错误增发约 1840 亿枚 BTC。公司表示 Zcash 即将发布更新，并强调关键在于能否在恶意行为者之前发现问题。 此前 ZEC 因被曝存在可能导致无限增发的安全漏洞，单日跌幅一度超 50%。

此前利用 Anthropic 的 Claude Opus 4.8 AI 模型发现 Zcash 重大漏洞的安全工程师 Taylor Hornby 表示，他计划将门罗币（XMR）及其他隐私代币纳入其后续的审计排期中。当在社交平台 X 上被问及是否会审查门罗币等其他隐私加密货币的缺陷时，Hornby 给予了肯定答复。此前在 5 月 29 日，受非营利开发组织 Shielded Labs 资助的 Hornby 发现了 Zcash 零知识证明隐私池（Orchard）中自 2022 年 5 月起便一直隐蔽存在的关键 soundness 缺陷。(CoinDesk) https://t.co/TwEAkJrO

Got flake for highlighting a risk in zcash (and most privacy coins) last year 🫠 There are mitigations but none without tradeoffs. For now, there's an argument to keep most of your zcash unshielded and only use shielded pools as current accounts when you want to do transfers. https://x.com/Mudit__

Researcher who found Zcash's bug with AI adds Monero to his audit queue

🚨 NEW POLYMARKET: Zcash's Orchard pool confirmed exploited? https://polymarket.com/event/zcashs-orchard-pool-confirmed-exploited-20260605210804589?via=x-afr2

🚨 NEW POLYMARKET: Zcash's Orchard pool confirmed exploited? https://t.co/VWHEvjT3cF

/1 on May 29, Taylor Hornby disclosed a critical counterfeiting bug in Zcash Orchard. the defect had been live for 4 years. it survived multiple cryptographer audits. Taylor caught it using Opus 4.8 plus a custom audit harness. we re-ran AntFleet's pipeline against the 2021 commit that introduced i

can anyone help me find a copy of the zcash sprout trusted setup files?