{"id":557637,"date":"2026-02-18T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/amlbot-says-social-engineering-drove-65-of-crypto-cases-it-probed-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:52:40","slug":"amlbot-says-social-engineering-drove-65-of-crypto-cases-it-probed-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/amlbot-says-social-engineering-drove-65-of-crypto-cases-it-probed-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"AMLBot says social engineering drove 65% of crypto cases it probed in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AMLBot<\/p>\n

Social engineering and impersonation-related scams were the most frequent attack vectors targeting crypto investors in AMLBot\u2019s own investigations last year.<\/p>\n

About two-thirds of crypto incidents investigated by blockchain analytics company AMLBot in 2025 were driven by social engineering rather than technical exploits, according to a report based on the company\u2019s internal casework.<\/p>\n

AMLBot said 65% of the incidents it reviewed last year involved access and response failures, such as compromised devices, weak verification and delayed detection, instead of vulnerabilities in blockchains or smart contracts. <\/p>\n

The company said its analysis draws on about 2,500 internal investigations and should not be read as an industrywide measure of crypto crime, according to a Wednesday report <\/a>shared with Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n

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Social engineering and impersonation-related scams were the most frequent attack vectors targeting crypto investors in AMLBot\u2019s own investigations last year. About two-thirds of crypto incidents investigated by blockchain analytics company AMLBot in 2025 were driven by social engineering rather than technical exploits, according to a report based on the company\u2019s internal casework. AMLBot said 65% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":557638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-557637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}