Overview
- Ledger’s Charles Guillemet warns that AI tools now let attackers find and use software bugs far faster and at lower cost than before.
- He says tasks like reverse engineering code or linking several small bugs into one working exploit can drop from months to seconds with the right prompts.
- Recent breaches include $285 million drained from the Solana-based Drift protocol and $25 million stolen from Resolv, reinforcing the rising risk.
- Guillemet describes malware that searches compromised phones for wallet seed phrases, which lets thieves empty accounts without any user action.
- He recommends mathematically proven code and keeping private keys on dedicated offline devices, noting DefiLlama tracks over $1.4 billion in losses in the past year and predicts a split between hardened core systems and lagging projects.