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Apparently mounting a 51% attack on a blockchain can sometimes net more money than the compute cost! https://blog.bitquery.io/attacker-stole-807k-etc-in-ethereum-classic-51-attack

Amazing story of how Coinbase detected and responded to a sophisticated attack using two Firefox 0-days and spear phishing:

Yet another side channel attack in CPUs: https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-cpus-impacted-by-new-zombieload-side-channel-attack/ (Big incentive to upgrade when fixed chips are available!)