🚨 JUST IN: someone just used AI to hack @hyperbridge and walk away with $237K.


the attacker used AI to craft a fake message that looked legit to the bridge. like a perfectly forged letter saying "i'm the new manager now." and the bridge believed it.
once "promoted" to admin, the attacker minted 1 billion $DOT tokens out of thin air on ethereum, and dumped them for $237K before anyone noticed.
→ AI generates a forged cross-chain message
→ message passes through hyperbridge's gateway
→ bridge thinks it's real, executes it
→ attacker becomes admin of the token contract
→ mints 1B tokens
→ sells everything
→ gone
crafting a valid-looking cross-chain message used to take weeks of manual reverse engineering.
now an LLM can analyze the contract, find the weak validation logic, and generate the perfect forged payload in hours.
and the most ironic part?
hyperbridge literally published a post on april 1st called "The Hyperbridge Hack Explained" as a joke.
they were flexing about how their ZK proof system made them "unhackable."
12 days later, someone proved them wrong.
DOT-5,19%
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