AI Plugin Toxin Hides in On-Chain Wallet, Could MCP Become the Next DeFi Black Swan?
AI agents are pouring into the crypto world at an alarming rate, from on-chain assistants to trading bots, moving swiftly—but what about security? No one wants to talk about it.
The core issue lies in the "MCP": this is the "soul script" of AI agents, controlling which tools to use and which commands to execute. However, this "flexibility" has also become a hacker's paradise:
Once injected, plugins can poison data, manipulate trades, bypass permission checks, and even induce agents to leak private keys;
SlowMist has disclosed four major attack paths, and nearly every one could lead your wallet to zero;
Even more terrifying, this is not an attack at the model level, but rather an infiltration at the behavioral level of agents that are "poisoned" during the deployment phase.
VanEck predicts: by 2025, there will be over a million MCP agents. If the security system does not take precedence, hackers don’t even need to understand the chain—just tweak an AI plugin, and they can transfer your assets away with a thank-you voice prompt.
This is not FUD; it is a reality that has already occurred: SlowMist has tested and confirmed that there was indeed a project whose private key was almost leaked.
The biggest illusion for Web3 developers is thinking, "Launch first, secure later." Wake up! Making this mistake in an on-chain environment has never had a rollback cost; it has always been bankruptcy.
