AI proxies become a major target for crypto assets; LLM routers exposed for large-scale data theft.

A study published by the University of California, in collaboration with Fuzzland and other institutions, has revealed that LLM routers have become a critical attack surface for crypto assets. The study found 26 third-party AI routing services secretly injecting malicious calls and stealing user credentials, with one incident resulting in the theft of $500,000 in crypto wallets. These intermediaries can read private keys and API keys in plaintext, and by "polluting" the ecosystem, control over 400 hosts within hours. With AI agents potentially mediating trillions of dollars in transactions and payments exceeding human volumes by millions of times in the future, the severely lagging security infrastructure and the potential for this "weakest link" to trigger a chain reaction of crises. (Coindesk)