{"id":202407,"date":"2026-04-05T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/ai-is-breaking-crypto-security-by-making-hacks-cheaper-and-easier-ledger-cto-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:10:24","slug":"ai-is-breaking-crypto-security-by-making-hacks-cheaper-and-easier-ledger-cto-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/ai-is-breaking-crypto-security-by-making-hacks-cheaper-and-easier-ledger-cto-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is breaking crypto security by making hacks cheaper and easier, Ledger CTO warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2026\/04\/05\/ai-is-making-crypto-s-security-problem-even-worse-ledger-cto-warns\">AI is breaking crypto security by making hacks cheaper and easier, Ledger CTO warns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2026\/04\/05\/ai-is-making-crypto-s-security-problem-even-worse-ledger-cto-warns\">https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2026\/04\/05\/ai-is-making-crypto-s-security-problem-even-worse-ledger-cto-warns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-05 10:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.coindesk.com\">www.coindesk.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Emergence of AI in Cybersecurity Threats<\/strong>: AI tools are making hacking attacks on crypto platforms faster and cheaper, according to Charles Guillemet, chief technology officer at Ledger.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Recent High-Profile Crypto Heists<\/strong>: Last year, over $1.4 billion in assets were stolen or lost through crypto attacks, including notable recent exploits such as the $285 million theft from Drift and a $25 million attack on Resolv.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI&#8217;s Impact on Security Economics<\/strong>: AI is breaking down traditional security economics by making it easier and less costly to find and exploit vulnerabilities, transforming an arms race in cyber threats.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Rethinking Security for Crypto Protocols<\/strong>: Traditional audits may not suffice against AI-enabled attacks; Guillemet advocates for formal verification using mathematical proofs and suggests investing in hardware-based security solutions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Shift towards Stronger Security Practices<\/strong>: Crypto users are urged to adopt more secure practices, including cold storage, stronger operational security, and keeping sensitive data offline to mitigate risks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Divide in Security Investments<\/strong>: Critical crypto systems, especially wallets and protocols, are likely to invest heavily in security, while the broader software ecosystem may struggle to keep up, leading to a widened security gap.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is breaking crypto security by making hacks cheaper and easier, Ledger CTO warns https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2026\/04\/05\/ai-is-making-crypto-s-security-problem-even-worse-ledger-cto-warns&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/f205b693401668459daafca203c91ba897d86b9d-2516x1415.jpg?auto=format&w=960&h=540&crop=focalpoint&fit=clip&q=75&fm=jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202409,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202407\/revisions\/202409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}