BTCPay Server Reports No Wallet Drains on Latest Release After Asking Merchants to Go Offline

BTCPay Server asked every merchant running its open-source bitcoin payment software to go offline. The project said on Sunday that hot wallets on some instances were being swept, and its founder later said the attacker had gotten in with admin access . Late Sunday, BTCPay said its investigation had identified the attack vector, which targets instances on version 2.4.1 or older , and urged everyone to keep the software updated. “We are receiving reports of hot wallets on BTCPay Servers being swept by unauthorized attackers,” the project posted on X , asking operators to run its shutdown script “until we complete the investigation.” Nicolas Dorier , BTCPay Server’s founder, said in a follow-up post about two hours later that the project’s own public servers “were not attacked” and are running…

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