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Oliver Knight's North Korea’s AI-Powered Hackers Are Redefining Crypto Crime describes another new technological risk for cryptocurrencies:
"There's a change coming to crypto crime, and North Korea's state-backed hackers are in the vanguard.
There's no longer any need for dozens of expensively educated programmers to analyze blockchain code and smart contracts for vulnerabilities, it's now possible to set AI to the task, according to Kostas Kryptos Chalkias, co-founder and chief cryptographer of Mysten Labs.
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Security researchers at Microsoft and Mandiant have worked together on the trend, documenting a rise in AI-assisted phishing, deepfake impersonations and synthetic job applications used by North Korean operatives posing as Western software developers.
The regime’s AI toolkit now spans the entire intrusion chain from social engineering, code analysis and cross-chain exploitation to laundering, which uses pattern-recognition algorithms to track liquidity paths through mixers and OTC brokers, automating obfuscation."
Oct 26, 2025, 6:33:23 PM
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