AI Is Rereading Crypto’s Old Code, and Finding What Humans Missed
Crypto’s security problem took a strange turn in 2026. Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted researchers found a four-year-old Zcash flaw capable of creating counterfeit ZEC, a Coldcard weakness dating to 2021, which preceded more than $100 million in estimated bitcoin thefts, and attackers manipulated an AI agent into transferring roughly 3 billion DRB. Meanwhile, malicious instructions embedded […]
Key Takeaways
- Crypto’s security problem took a strange turn in 2026.
- Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted researchers found a four-year-old Zcash flaw capable of creating counterfeit ZEC, a Coldcard weakness dating to 2021, which preceded more than $100 million in estimated bitcoin thefts, and attackers manipulated an AI agent into transferring roughly 3 billion DRB.
- Meanwhile, malicious instructions embedded […]
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