r/Monero • u/Swimming-Cake-2892 • 15h ago
📢 Public Service Announcement Qubic, the infamous miner shitcoin that attacked Monero, has been using "Math.Random" for its wallet's RNG.
Since zealotry is against the precept of this subreddit, I invite every single one of you to wish congratulations to Qubic for this awesome discovery. Anyone congratulating them can also request a brand new "⛏ Yearn for the mines" user flair
Several users has reported losing their coins. After investigation it turns out Qubic has been using typescript's `Math.random` for generating the seed. Making it trivial to recalculate seed keys based on various elements like the seed itself, the date it has been generated, etc...
Fix: https://github.com/qubic/wallet/commit/09dd288c338c7ccfade043e840c53b80e795a916
Qubic announcement: https://x.com/_Qubic_/status/2111796725677715474
Qubic's founder has not yet given a response regarding this event.
Update: That's my bad he actually did respond:
