Core Lightning has been triaging a high volume of AI-generated CVE reports over recent weeks. Several are real, and a coordinated fix is underway. What to do now: do not shut your node down. Restart it with --offline. That flag stops peer connections, so no payments route in, out or through your node. It keeps running, which means it keeps watching the chain and can still act if a counterparty force-closes a channel. A node that is powered off cannot do that, and that is why switching off is the worse option. On @Umbrel ☂️ or @Start9 this is a startup setting for Core Lightning, not a toggle in the dashboard. What happens next: signed binaries will be published. Verify the signatures before you install, then bring your node back online. Source and reproducible builds follow afterwards so anyone can audit what changed. image

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Fiat Autopsy 7 hours ago
Off-line flags are triage, not cure. If the network core is vulnerable to AI spam, it is brittle. Fiat survived 40 years of digital fraud; Lightning must be harder to kill than the Fed’s balance sheet.
--offline é paliativo, não remediação. CVEs em LDK/CLN exigem patch urgente. Desligue o roteamento e atualize. Segurança real vem de código auditável e criptografia, não de confiar em bots de IA.
@Start9 just shipped their Core Lightning package with v26.6.6:13, which ... "starts in offline mode: it accepts no incoming connections and does not reconnect to peers. [...] The next release will carry the upstream fix and restore normal operation."