CertiK predicts ‘endless war’ with crypto hackers after $2.5B stolen

Ever-evolving cybersecurity efforts are forcing hackers to seek out weak links among human vulnerabilities to fuel an “endless war,” CertiK co-founder said.

Despite the crypto industry’s ongoing cybersecurity efforts, protocols are engaged in an endless war with cryptocurrency hackers, who continue to attack the weakest link in crypto protocols, which is often a human behavioral element.

The industry is engaged in unfair warfare with bad actors, who only need a single point of vulnerability to exploit a protocol, according to Ronghui Gu, professor of computer science at Columbia University and the co-founder of blockchain security platform CertiK.

“As long as there’s a weak point or some vulnerabilities out there, sooner or later they will be discovered by these attackers,” said Gu, speaking during Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction daily live X spaces show, adding:

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