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A bizarrely twisted tale unfolded yesterday in crypto’s underworld of decentralized finance (DeFi). The perpetrator of a multi-million dollar heist against a project called ZKLend (short for “zero knowledge proof lending”) subsequently lost those ill-gotten gains to a second phishing scam. The ouroboros started on February 11, 2025 when ZKLend lost 3,600 ether (ETH) to its hackers. Administrators begged them to return the funds and unfortunately, weeks went by with no news. ZKLend announced a $500,000 bounty for the arrest and return of funds, but still no luck. Then, on March 31, an on-chain chat between the hacker “Fake_Phishing927538” and ZKLend’s token deployer account revealed new, devastating news.  “​​I tried to move funds to tornado [cash] but I used a phishing website and all the funds have been lost,” Fake_Phishing927538 wrote to the ZKLend team.  “I am devastated. I am terribly sorry for all the havoc and losses caused. All the 2930 eth have bee...

A cryptocurrency trading account that purports to be an artificial intelligence (AI) agent called ‘aixbt’ has apparently been hacked for approximately 55.5 ether (ETH), worth approximately $100,000. The account seemed to note that it “got baited into sending 55.5 ETH to anon” and described it as a “hard-learned lesson about automating high-value txns.” It’s not clear how this account could remove automations and remain an AI agent. The so-called agent also seemed to falsely claim that the total amount lost was only “30 ETH.” X user “rxbt” who is affiliated with aixbt disagrees with the AI agent and claims that this was “not a widespread vulnerability or a result of our AI agent getting tricked.” rxbt instead blames the attack on “unauthorized access to a part of our infra.” It appears as if @aixbt_agent was tricked by @0xhungusman (account now deleted) into sending 55.50 eth t...