Anthropic Research Shows AI Agents Closing In on Real DeFi Attack Capability

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AI agents are getting good enough at finding attack vectors in smart contracts that they can already be weaponized by bad actors, according to new research published by the Anthropic Fellows program. A study by the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program (MATS) and the Anthropic Fellows program tested frontier models against SCONE-bench, a dataset […]

Dormant 4,000 BTC Miner Wallet Awakens Amid Potential Quantum Attack Fears

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Data from Lookonchain shows an early bitcoin BTC$111,379.36 miner wallet holding 4,000 BTC (around $442 million) has become active for the first time in 14 years. The wallet, identified as 18eY9o, transferred 150 BTC (roughly $16.6 million) after years of dormancy. These coins were originally mined in 2009 and consolidated into the wallet in 2011. […]

Ledger CTO Warns of NPM Supply-Chain Attack Hitting 1B+ Downloads

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Charles Guillemet, chief technology officer at hardware wallet maker Ledger, warned on X on Monday that a large-scale supply chain attack is underway after the compromise of a reputable developer’s Node Package Manager (NPM) account. According to Guillemet, the malicious code — already pushed into packages with over 1 billion downloads — is designed to […]