JUST IN: The weakest link for your cryptocurrencies is in the mirror. In a world of deepfakes readily available to anyone, social engineering becomes the biggest risk for cryptocurrency users.


On April 1, 2026, like a bad April Fool's joke, the largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange in Solana was tricked into a hack that netted approximately $285 million in just 12 minutes.
It wasn't a bug in the code. It wasn't a smart contract exploit. It was pure social engineering, a deception plotted over about six months.
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