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TRM Labs Says Criminal Use of AI Rose 40% Year Over Year
TRM Labs said its 2026 AI Crime Application Index shows criminal use of AI rose 40% year over year. According to Odaily, identified attack methods include fake YouTube tutorials for AI trading bots and coding lessons that诱导 users to create wallets, copy code, deploy smart contracts, and deposit cryptocurrency into them, with malicious scripts used to steal assets. The videos claim Claude can be used to build AI-driven arbitrage bots.
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