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Core Lightning Confirms Vulnerabilities, Urges Node Upgrade

Summary by Cointelegraph
Core Lightning advised operators to use offline mode if they do not install the forthcoming update, keeping their nodes active but disconnected.

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Key Points of the News: Core Lightning developers instructed node operators to run their systems with the command –offline while the corrected binaries are being published. Technical documentation and vulnerability details will remain under a two-week embargo period. The incident represents the fourth security alert in Bitcoin infrastructure for the past four weeks, following incidents in Coldcard, Boltz and BTCPay Server. On Wednesday, August 2…

Security alert on the Lightning network: an emergency message broadcast by security researcher @callebtc, a member of the Bitcoin Red Team, relays the instructions of Core Lightning developers to Blockstream. The message is unequivocal: node operators who cannot immediately apply the last patch must immediately turn off the message. [...] The article Security alert for Core Lightning nodes operators (formerly C-Lightning) appeared first on bitco…

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CryptoSlate broke the news on Wednesday, August 26, 2026.
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