Taylor Hornby, the security researcher who discovered the Zcash vulnerability, has included Monero in his audit plan.

CoinFeed reported on June 6th that, according to CoinDesk, security engineer Taylor Hornby, after discovering a critical vulnerability in the Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Anthropic's Opus 4.8 AI model, stated that he plans to include privacy coins like Monero in the next round of audits. The vulnerability, discovered by Hornby on May 29th, allows attackers to mint an unlimited number of undetectable counterfeit ZEC coins; the vulnerability has existed for nearly a year. Following the vulnerability's exposure, the price of Zcash plummeted 38% within 24 hours. Hornby emphasized that he chose to report the vulnerability rather than exploit it because the development team is "like family," and he couldn't bear to betray them.