AI-Driven Phishing Pipeline Targets 885K Phone Numbers in Crypto Scam

Rapid7 has exposed an AI-coded crypto phishing operation called Operation ASTERIX, which targeted 885,000 phone numbers and matched 43,066 of them to real exchange accounts.

The disclosure highlights a large-scale AI-driven phishing risk to exchange accounts and CEX users, raising security and fraud concerns that could undermine user trust in crypto.

The Operation ASTERIX pipeline used machine learning algorithms to identify phone numbers associated with real exchange accounts, posing a significant threat to the security of these accounts.