{"id":231541,"date":"2026-06-14T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/crypto-tokens-50-wipeout-shows-magnitude-of-ai-hacking-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T00:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:30:21","slug":"crypto-tokens-50-wipeout-shows-magnitude-of-ai-hacking-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/crypto-tokens-50-wipeout-shows-magnitude-of-ai-hacking-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto token\u2019s 50% wipeout shows magnitude of AI-hacking threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/06\/15\/tech\/crypto-token-ai-hacking\/\">Crypto token\u2019s 50% wipeout shows magnitude of AI-hacking threat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/06\/15\/tech\/crypto-token-ai-hacking\/\">https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/06\/15\/tech\/crypto-token-ai-hacking\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-14 22:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.japantimes.co.jp\">www.japantimes.co.jp<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eli Ben-Sasson, a cryptographer, helped create the Zcash cryptocurrency but was surprised by how machine intelligence later exposed a long-ignored security flaw.<\/li>\n<li>A security researcher utilized Anthropic\u2019s Claude Opus 4.8 AI to discover a critical vulnerability in Zcash that had evaded detection by human experts for over four years.<\/li>\n<li>After the flaw was disclosed in early June, Zcash&#8217;s token price plummeted about 50%, as investors reevaluated the security of its privacy network.<\/li>\n<li>Zcash\u2019s value proposition hinges heavily on its advanced cryptography for transaction privacy, and the detected flaw threatened this core strength.<\/li>\n<li>The incident raised concerns about how artificial intelligence might influence and potentially outperform human oversight in identifying vulnerabilities in crypto networks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto token\u2019s 50% wipeout shows magnitude of AI-hacking threat https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/06\/15\/tech\/crypto-token-ai-hacking\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-14 22:13:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/japantimes\/uploads\/images\/2026\/06\/15\/546021.jpg?v=3.1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-231541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231541"}],"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=231541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231543,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231541\/revisions\/231543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}