Ledger’s Hardware Implant and Vitalik’s AI Warning Reveal Crypto’s New Security Fronts

Artificial intelligence is changing the economics of software development, and cybercriminals are benefiting from the same tools used by legitimate programmers. Coding assistants can generate software, debug errors and automate repetitive tasks in minutes. For experienced attackers, those capabilities can shorten the development of malicious tools, accelerate vulnerability research and make complex operations easier to coordinate. That reality gives additional weight to two recent developments in cryptocurrency security. Ledger has confirmed the discovery of an unauthorized hardware implant inside an affected wallet, while Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has warned that AI could uncover cryptographic weaknesses that human researchers have not…