Bloomberg: AI hacking threat is pushing the $130 billion DeFi industry to the brink of risk.

CoinFeed reported on May 15th, citing Bloomberg, that the two major DeFi attacks in April 2026, involving Drift Protocol and Kelp DAO, resulted in nearly $600 million in losses and triggered an outflow of approximately $9 billion from protocols such as Aave. Nick Carlsen, an investigator at TRM Labs, stated that hacking groups linked to North Korea are suspected of using AI to assist in target selection and attack path design. Failsafe CEO Aneirin Flynn stated that AI has reduced the time to discover blockchain vulnerabilities from months to days or even hours. The report also noted that Anthropic has not fully released its AI model, Mythos, due to cybersecurity risks, claiming that the model has the capability to discover large-scale zero-day vulnerabilities. Their research indicates that by 2025, theoretically, more than half of blockchain attacks could be autonomously completed by AI.