Weaponized Trading Bots Drain $1M From Crypto Users via AI-Generated YouTube Scam

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Over $1 million has been siphoned from unsuspecting crypto users through malicious smart contracts posing as MEV trading bots, according to a new report by SentinelLABS. The campaign leveraged AI-generated YouTube videos, aged accounts, and obfuscated Solidity code to bypass basic user scrutiny and gain access to crypto wallets. Scammers appeared to be using AI-generated avatars and voices to reduce production costs and scale up video content. These tutorials are published on aged YouTube accoun...