Ill Bloom proof-of-concept alert
threatwire_-2085593099749749082
- Author
- @threatwire_
- Organisation
- independent
- Evidence role
- social statement
- Posted
- 7 Aug 2026, 05:05 UTC
- Capture status
- capture held
A security-news account reporting that a public proof of concept has been released for Ill Bloom, described as a twelve-year-old weak-entropy flaw in CryptoJS, and linking a GitHub repository holding it. It says the flaw reduced seed-phrase entropy to 2^39, in the post's words "just 2^39 bits", and that brute-force attacks have already drained US$5.69M from 2,114 wallets. This is a separate defect from the COLDCARD one, held because it is the parallel weak-entropy story running in the same week and because another registered source describes an affected wallet in the same terms. None of the figures, the proof of concept or the loss total is checked here, and the claims are the poster's own.
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