Hacked bitcoin wallet maker warns AI failed to detect bug

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg08-05

The company at the centre of a bitcoin hack has warned that artificial intelligence failed to detect the software flaw that was exploited to steal users' funds, now estimated at US$130 million.(Aug 5)...

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Firms using AI to monitor security-critical code should undertake immediate reviews, Coinkite said in a blog post on its website.\n\"If your team relies on AI review of security-critical code, we recommend you test it specifically against build and sub-module boundaries,\" Coinkite said. \"We believe many bitcoin projects, including those that rely on open-source code, require immediate review.\"\nThe Coldcard hack has unnerved crypto investors because so-called \"hard\" wallets, which use physical hardware to store private keys and are not connected to the internet, are considered one of the safest ways to secure digital tokens. The breach has put scrutiny on self-custody, one of crypto's founding principles.\n\n\"Self-custody is a hallmark of digital assets, but Coldcard shows how one point of failure can shake trust in the whole model,\" said Nikhil Raghuveera, CEO of Predicate, a blockchain compliance infrastructure provider. \"The repercussions could be long-lasting because the ecosystem is built on the promise of being trustless. Over time the bigger risk is that investors move away from digital assets entirely.\"\nFollowing the hack, roughly 728,000 bitcoin wallets moved funds in a single day, according Ki Young Ju, founder of CryptoQuant. The rush to move the tokens was significant enough to push down the \"mean coin age\", a measure of the average number of days tokens have remained dormant, for the first time this year, he wrote in a post on X.\n\"The excess likely reflects a move to safer storage,\" he wrote.\nGalaxy Research estimates that four suspected attack waves in the Coldcard hack have resulted in losses of about US$130 million, according to its latest analysis.\nCoinkite said the bug appears to have lived in the part of the firmware where two separate software components interact, not in the parent code or cryptographic logic that are subject to most reviews.\nIt's important for the broader ecosystem to understand how the bug arose and why it evaded detection, \"so they can avoid similar consequences\", it said.\n\"We've run AI-assisted review against our critical codebases, including in the weeks before the exploit,\" Coinkite said. \"It did not catch this vulnerability.\"\nSince the incident, Coinkite has tested its code against several frontier AI models, and \"none of them caught it\", the company said.\n\"It's a reason for us, and anyone else relying on AI tools, to be specific about what they currently catch and what they might not.\"\nUploaded by Arion Yeow","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":false,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"-1","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"isLaohu8Offline":false,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.47.1","shortVersion":"4.47.1","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2657330579","isCrawlerRequest":true}