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It is the second long-term social<\/a>-engineering attack this month, after the $280 million exploit of the Drift Protocol.<\/p>\n Crypto wallet Zerion revealed that North Korean-affiliated hackers used AI in a long-term social engineering attack to steal about $100,000 from the company\u2019s hot wallets last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Zerion team released<\/a> a post-mortem on Wednesday, where it confirmed that no user funds, Zerion app<\/a>s or infrastructure were affected and that it had proactively disabled the web app as a precaution.\u00a0<\/p>\n While the amount was relatively small in crypto hacking terms, it is another incident of a crypto worker being targeted for an \u201cAI-enabled social engineering attack linked to a DPRK threat actor,\u201d Zerion said.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If you want to read more News<\/a> articles, you can visit our General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n