{"id":834593,"date":"2025-03-17T08:12:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/crypto-news-hackers-target-kaito-ai-with-false-claims-of-wallet-compromise\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T08:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:12:26","slug":"crypto-news-hackers-target-kaito-ai-with-false-claims-of-wallet-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/crypto-news-hackers-target-kaito-ai-with-false-claims-of-wallet-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto News: Hackers Target Kaito AI with False Claims of Wallet Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On March 15, 2025, Kaito AI, an artificial intelligence-powered platform for crypto market analysis, and its founder, Yu, fell victim to a social media hack on X (formerly Twitter). The attackers gained control of the account and falsely claimed that Kaito AI\u2019s wallets had been compromised, warning users that their funds were at risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to blockchain investigator Defi Warhol, the attackers also reportedly opened a short position on Kaito tokens before posting the false alerts. Their goal appeared to be manipulating the token\u2019s price downward so they could profit from the artificial decline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Kaito AI\u2019s team quickly regained control of the compromised account and reassured users that their wallets remained secure. The team also said that they had implemented robust security measures to prevent such incidents in the future, noting that the attack seemed similar to other recent breaches targeting crypto-related accounts.<\/p>\n

The company wrote, \u201cThis account and @Punk9277 were just compromised. The KAITO wallets were NOT and are NOT compromised. We now have regained access to the twitter accounts. Please bare with us as we investigate how this happened. We had high standard security measures in place to prevent it \u2013 so it seems to be similar or the same to other recent Twitter account hacks. We\u2019ll update as soon as we can. To reiterate \u2013 KAITO token wallets have not been compromised.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rise in such cyberattacks has led to an alarming increase in losses within the crypto ecosystem. According to a report by blockchain security platform Immunefi, losses in February 2025 were 20 times higher than in January 2025, with a sharp increase in scams targeting investors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On March 15, 2025, Kaito AI, an artificial intelligence-powered platform for crypto market analysis, and its founder, Yu, fell victim to a social media hack on X (formerly Twitter). The attackers gained control of the account and falsely claimed that Kaito AI\u2019s wallets had been compromised, warning users that their funds were at risk.\u00a0 According<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":834594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22791,183],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-834593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crypto","8":"category-hackers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}