October 9, 2025

“Believe your own eyes,” the old saying goes. But maybe not if you work in cryptocurrency. Last year, U.S. citizens alone lost an estimated $9.3 billion to cryptocurrency-related scams and filed nearly 150,000 complaints, according to the FBI. A growing share of these schemes involves malicious use of artificial intelligence, especially deepfake technology. Among AI-driven security threats, real-time deepfakes stand out for their sophistication and difficulty of detection.

September 11, 2025

Last week, a GK8 executive was targeted in a highly sophisticated social engineering attack. Impersonating an acquaintance of the exec on Telegram, the attackers lured him onto a fake Zoom call that looked like the real thing. 

September 3, 2025

In June 2025, researchers at GK8 identified an emerging cybercrime threat on a highly restricted underground forum, where a well-established, highly active threat actor was observed recruiting experienced voice-based social engineering operatives to conduct targeted attacks against senior executives at leading U.S.-based cryptocurrency firms.