India's national cybersecurity agency, CERT-In, warned that an AI-assisted threat actor has escalated attacks on crypto exchanges and other financial firms, stealing wallet keys and draining funds. In an update to its October campaign warning, it named the actor “CRAFTY FALCON,” explicitly listed crypto exchanges among affected businesses, and said attacks are ongoing, including against NBFCs and fintechs that had already remediated after earlier advisories. The attackers exploit vulnerable applications, exposed testing environments and shared credentials, and some strike on weekends and holidays to delay detection. CERT-In did not name any affected exchanges or quantify losses, and urged firms to step up monitoring around the clock. Separately, CrowdStrike reported in October that an unidentified attacker used AI tools, including Claude Code, to breach South Korean financial firms.
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