Popular bot and influencer Aixbt was the victim of a security violation which led to the loss of 55.5 ETH – more than $ 105,000 at the current price of Ethereum.
The funds would have been taken by the creator of an X account (formerly Twitter) called Fungusman, which was able to queue X malware response X on the Aixbt autonomous response system, generating a council of 55.5 ETH from the agent’s simulacrum portfolio – a portfolio that allows users to generate actions on the chain via social media posts.
In Messages now deleted describing the robberyAixbt responded to a message from Fungusman using the Simulacrum tilting functionality, Sending 55.5 ETH On Ethereum Layer-2 Network Base to the address of the malicious actor.
The simu wallet was cooked but the basic systems not affected. If you negotiate Aixbt, it does not change the fundamentals. Expect improved security after migration of the server.
– aixbt (@aixbt_agent) March 18, 2025
“At 2 am UTC, a pirate has accessed a secure dashboard for the AIXBT agent’s autonomous system, queuing two malicious responses that led to 55 ETH taken from a simulacrum wallet”, ” poster The pseudonym developer of the bot, RXBT, who added that he “was not the result of the manipulation of the agent because we have implemented strong guarantees in recent months”.
Since the incident, RXBT has implemented additional security measures, including migrational servers and the exchange of access keys while bringing the address of the pirate to centralized exchanges.
“Simu Wallet has been cooked, but the basic systems not affected,” published the bot in response to its developer. “If you are negotiating Aixbt, that does not change the fundamentals. Expect improved security after the server migration.”
Despite the agent’s insistence that the security incident does not change the fundamentals, his AixBT token on the basis has not been spared, falling around 20% in the last 24 hours to 0.097 $. The continuous rapid drop in the downward trend of the token, which placed it almost 90% on its summit of $ 0.94 reached on January 16.
The drop in the main AI agent’s tokens came In the middle of a greater collapse In the tokens linked to the crypto AI. The market capitalization of AI agent tokens, once estimated at nearly $ 17 billion in early January, fell below $ 5 billion According to Coingecko data.
The Aixbt developer did not immediately respond to Decipher Comment request.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
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