🔐 Cybersecurity News (December 11, 2023):

1️⃣ The Block: CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, stated the need for serious restrictions on digital assets during a meeting with U.S. legislators. 💼 The necessity for limitations on digital assets raises questions about #cryptocurrency regulation.

2️⃣ AFM: Since the beginning of 2023, the Financial Monitoring Agency (AFM) of #kazakhstan has shut down the operations of 980 illegal cryptocurrency exchange platforms. Law enforcement has initiated nine investigations into illegal exchange transactions totaling $36.7 million. 🛑 Effective work.

3️⃣ Tondev: The throughput of The Open Network (TON) slowed to one transaction per second due to a glitch caused by the popularity of the Ordinals analog. According to developers and #ton users in the Telegram chat, issues began on December 5th. The blockchain overload was so severe that popular crypto wallets, TON Wallet, and Tonkeeper temporarily halted operations. By December 7th, over 2.5 million unconfirmed transactions were stuck in the pool. 🚨 This underscores the importance of scalability in blockchain projects.

4️⃣ thirdweb: Developers of the Thirdweb #web3 platform discovered a vulnerability in an unnamed open-source library that potentially affects the security of numerous smart contracts and NFT collections. 🔐

5️⃣ NIST: The U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) marked the "marks" created in the Ordinals protocol as a cybersecurity threat to the first cryptocurrency network. According to the warning, in some versions of #bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots, using BRC-20, limitations on transmitted data volume through a transaction can be bypassed by disguising them as code. 🔒

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