Security engineer Taylor Hornby flags major Zcash flaw, says Monero may be next for audit

PANews, June 6 — CoinDesk reported that security engineer Taylor Hornby said he plans to expand his next round of audits to privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, including Monero, after uncovering a critical vulnerability in Zcash's Orchard privacy pool with Anthropic's Opus 4.8 AI model. Hornby found the issue on May 29. It could have allowed attackers to mint unlimited, undetectable counterfeit ZEC and had reportedly existed for nearly a year. After the disclosure, Zcash fell 38% in 24 hours. Hornby said he chose to disclose the vulnerability instead of exploiting it, citing a close relationship with the development team and saying they felt "like family."