CryptoJS Weak RNG Behind $5.7 Million in Drains Affects Five Crypto Wallet Apps

The Hacker News 6 August 2026, 14:49 EEST

Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains. Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the function supplied weak entropy that affected wallet apps used to generate recovery phrases. Coinspect's on-chain analysis puts the measured theft across two sweeps since late May at a lower bound of…

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