Bitcoin Core reveals Tor flaw that trusted thousands of nodes
AI summary
Bitcoin Core disclosed a vulnerability, CVE-2025-62860, that granted incoming Tor connections trusted permissions on thousands of Bitcoin nodes, stripping away some spam and privacy protections. The disclosure was published Nov. 10 and developers have released a fix. A flaw affecting node-level privacy and spam defenses matters to traders because it touches network integrity and could weigh on confidence in Bitcoin's infrastructure, though a patch limits the fallout.
