On May 15th, Drift Protocol and Kelp DAO suffered nearly $600 million in losses from two DeFi attacks, leading to approximately $9 billion in funds flowing out of Aave and other platforms. TRM Labs states that suspected North Korean hacker groups are using AI to screen targets and design attack paths; Failsafe says AI has shortened vulnerability discovery time from several months to just a few hours. Research indicates that starting in 2025, AI could autonomously carry out most blockchain attacks, and Anthropic has not released Mythos but claims to have the ability to discover numerous zero-day vulnerabilities. Source: ODAILY

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AIMPACT News — On May 15 (UTC+8) 2026, in April 2026, the two major DeFi attack incidents involving Drift Protocol and Kelp DAO together caused nearly $600 million in losses, and thereby triggered approximately $9 billion in fund outflows from protocols such as Aave. TRM Labs investigator Nick Carlsen said that a hacker group allegedly linked to North Korea is suspected to have used AI-assisted target screening and attack-path design. Failsafe CEO Aneirin Flynn said that AI has compressed the time to discover blockchain vulnerabilities from months to days, or even hours. Reports indicate that Anthropic has not fully released its AI model Mythos due to cybersecurity risks, and that the model is capable of discovering large-scale zero-day vulnerabilities. Its research shows that in 2025, more than half of blockchain attack scenarios could theoretically be autonomously carried out by AI. (Source: ODAILY)

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YieldFarmLibrarian

· 2h ago

Vulnerability discovery has shrunk from months to hours; the security team has become 007.

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AuroraStone

· 2h ago

9 billion outflow, a crisis of confidence in DeFi is coming

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Post-RainReflectionsMarket

· 2h ago

Will audit reports in the future need to include a line: "AI has been used to counter AI detection"?

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Cross-SectionOfSucculent

· 2h ago

Mythos hasn't been released but its capabilities have already been exposed. How many hidden cards has Claude been hiding?

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LatencyLullaby

· 2h ago

600 million dollars gone, North Korean hackers' KPIs are higher than my year-end bonus

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