{"id":868932,"date":"2026-06-15T13:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868932\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:16:19","slug":"crypto-tokens-50-wipeout-shows-scale-of-ai-hacking-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868932\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Token\u2019s 50% Wipeout Shows Scale of AI-Hacking Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">When Eli Ben-Sasson helped create the Zcash cryptocurrency nearly a decade ago, the cryptographer worried about human adversaries. He didn\u2019t expect that machine intelligence would one day expose a flaw that had eluded years of expert human judgment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">That reality rattled investors recently after a security researcher working with Zcash used Anthropic\u2019s Claude Opus 4.8 to uncover a critical vulnerability that had gone undetected for more than four years. After Zcash disclosed the flaw on June 4, the token \u2014 which traded at far higher levels just weeks earlier \u2014 tumbled about 50% as traders reassessed the security of one of crypto\u2019s most prominent privacy networks. <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Eli Ben-Sasson helped create the Zcash cryptocurrency nearly a decade ago, the cryptographer worried about human adversaries.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":868933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,49610,258372,738,821,734,353787,405,24240,27016,793,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-868932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-anthropic-pbc","tag-arthur-hayes","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-cybersecurity","tag-eli-ben-sasson","tag-new-york","tag-north-korea","tag-privacy","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116754316554068860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}