Crypto Security Faces New Test As Rogue AI Agents Emerge
Researchers from the University of California set up a trap — a crypto wallet loaded with a small amount of Ether and connected to third-party AI routing infrastructure. One of the routers took the bait. The wallet was drained. The loss was under $50, but the implications reached far beyond the dollar amount. Related Reading: […]
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Coinone’s chief executive is facing an official reprimand after South Korean regulators moved against the crypto exchange for a string of compliance failures, including tens of thousands of unverified user accounts and repeated dealings with unlicensed foreign platforms. Related Reading: Crypto Security Faces New Test As Rogue AI Agents Emerge Regulator Cites Tens Of Thousands […]
Carl Force IV, the DEA agent who pled guilty earlier this year will be facing sentencing on October 19th for his crimes as a rogue officer. The crimes committed were extortion, money laundering, and obstruction of justice during the Silk Road investigation and the arrest of the Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR). Force and his colleague Shaun Bridges were known special task force agents who went rogue while working undercover on the Silk Road case. The two have been said to have stole millions of dollars in Bitcoin while serving as law enforcement agents and many say tainted the entire case The....
AI has long been associated with data processing at scale, but traditional AI solutions rely on centralized infrastructures that pose significant risks to security, confidentiality, and user autonomy. Privasea’s DeepSea Network introduces an alternative: AI agents that operate within a decentralized, confidential computing framework powered by Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). AI Agents in the DeepSea […]
The role U. S. government agents played in bitcoin thefts at Mt. Gox in 2013 has generated a lot of media coverage recently. But one security firm investigating the Mt. Gox thefts, Tokyo-based WizSec, believes the agents did not play a significant role in the missing bitcoins. The Mt. Gox exchange collapsed in early 2014 and declared bankruptcy. In a recent blog post, WizSec provided an update on its investigation. "First of all: no, we don't think these agents are main characters in the story of the missing MtGox bitcoins, and the story doesn't begin in 2013 either," the blog post noted.....