{"id":638666,"date":"2026-08-04T00:53:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/boltz-pauses-service-after-wave-of-ai-assisted-hacking-attempts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:53:45","slug":"boltz-pauses-service-after-wave-of-ai-assisted-hacking-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/boltz-pauses-service-after-wave-of-ai-assisted-hacking-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"Boltz pauses service after wave of AI-assisted hacking attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/password-fraud-hacker-scam3-3.jpg\" alt=\"Boltz pauses service after wave of AI-assisted hacking attempts \" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The non-custodial protocol said attackers are discovering and adapting exploits faster than its small development team can identify and patch them. <\/p>\n<p>Boltz, a non-custodial Bitcoin swap service, says it is disabling its service until further notice after a rise in AI-assisted hacking attempts over the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>In a post to X on Monday, Boltz <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Boltzhq\/status\/2084311537502630319?s=20\"><span>said<\/span><\/a> the decision came after seeing a <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/openai-models-hacked-hugging-face-to-cheat-on-a-test\"><span>steady increase<\/span><\/a> in \u201cautomated AI-assisted probing\u201d of its infrastructure this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter reviewing the results of our own recent security scans, we cannot responsibly re-enable Boltz swaps, especially as we are being actively targeted by what appear to be multiple resourceful groups while we race to deploy fixes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/boltz-pauses-service-after-wave-of-ai-assisted-hacking-attempts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-custodial protocol said attackers are discovering and adapting exploits faster than its small development team can identify and patch them. Boltz, a non-custodial Bitcoin swap service, says it is disabling its service until further notice after a rise in AI-assisted hacking attempts over the last few months. In a post to X on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":638667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-638666","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\/638666","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=638666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}