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AMLBot says social engineering drove 65% of crypto cases it probed in 2025

  • Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai--Cointelegraph
  • published date: 2026-02-18 12:38:09 UTC

Social engineering and impersonation-related scams were the most frequent attack vectors targeting crypto investors in AMLBot’s own investigations last year.

About two-thirds of crypto incidents investigated by blockchain analytics company AMLBot in 2025 were driven by social engineering rather than technical exploits, according to a report based on the c… [+3230 chars]