AI is now being used to steal hundreds of millions from crypto and the techniques are more sophisticated than most people realize

Today a $293 million DeFi hack made headlines. But the more important story is how AI is becoming the primary weapon in crypto attacks and what that means for security everywhere.

North Korean state hackers are now running multi-month social engineering operations powered by generative AI. Here is what that looks like in practice.

we wrote a detailed breakdown of every major crypto hack of 2026 including the full technical analysis of today's $293M exploit and a section specifically on how AI is being weaponized in these attacks.

link : – https://open.substack.com/pub/laika862/p/is-ai-the-crypto-hackers-most-dangerous?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web