Bitcoin bridge Boltz suspends services as AI hacks outpace patches

Bitcoin bridge Boltz has suspended services indefinitely due to repeated attacks on its infrastructure by hackers using AI tools.

Boltz’ announced that it could no longer “responsibly re-enable Boltz swaps” while it’s “being actively targeted by what appear to be multiple resourceful groups while we race to deploy fixes.”

Indeed, the company claimed that over the past few months it had witnessed a “steady rise in automated, AI-assisted probing of our infrastructure” that resulted in several exploits.

Every exploit has apparently been contained, but Boltz is now worried that it can’t keep up with fixing exploits as its attackers “iterate faster than a team our size can find and patch.”

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