Postmortem of Monero CCS Hack: A Transaction Graph Analysis (moonstoneresearch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sgp@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

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[-] Saki@monero.town 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’d avoid anything related to Cake Wallet (e.g. its remote nodes), seeing that the OP sgp = SamsungGalaxyPlayer is doing this side business—chain analysis, offering suspicious activity reports for CEXes, ready to collaborate with law enforcement if paid.

In 2022, it was noticed that someone from Team Cymru, a company trading net flow data, was a board member of the Tor Project, providing bandwidth, hardware, bridges (entry points to the Tor network). There was a fix: Remove Team Cymru hard-coded bridges.

Now “Moonstone Research” is proudly saying they can trace things that other companies can’t, and they’re related to Cake Wallet directly or at least indirectly, or so it seems.

This possible suspicion aside, the analysis itself is interesting. While it might be good news if we can identify the attacker, that would be actually very bad news for Monero!

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 1 year ago

I'm thankful that this research organization is making these publications public. If the data is there, and it can be analyzed, it's good that we're aware of it. Our threat model should be based on capabilities, and demonstrating a capability is valuable.

I want to thank SGP for posting this.

[-] Saki@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago

My thought exactly, when I first read it. Still, just in case, I’d avoid using remote nodes related to Cake Wallet. It might be “honey pot flavored” cake, haha, although I’d like to believe that’s not true. Come to think of it, the monero.com domain must have been really expensive.