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AI agents have crossed a critical threshold in offensive cyber capabilities, successfully identifying and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in live financial contracts without human intervention. In ...

Advanced AI models can identify and exploit vulnerabilities in smart contracts automatically. Testing on real exploited contracts showed AI generated about $4.6 million in simulated thefts. AI found ...

Anthropic tested ten AI models on 405 historical smart contract exploits and reproduced 207 of them. Three models generated $4.6 million in simulated exploits on contracts created after their training ...

The research team also evaluated Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5 against 2,849 smart contracts recently deployed without known flaws. These models uncovered two novel zero-day vulnerabilities and created ...

According to Anthropic (@AnthropicAI), recent research published on the Frontier Red Team blog demonstrates that AI agents can successfully identify and exploit vulnerabilities in blockchain smart ...

Decentralized exchange and automated market maker Balancer suffered a major exploit on Monday, with more than $100 million in digital assets drained from its V2 Composable Stable Pools. The team said ...

Decentralized exchange and automated market maker Balancer suffered a major exploit on Monday, with more than $100 million in digital assets drained from its V2 Composable Stable Pools. The team said ...

Balancer attacked across multiple blockchain. Exploits affected Balancer v2. Several Balancer forks also impacted. On Monday, Balancer, a DeFi liquidity protocol with $678 million in investor assets, ...