Today in Crypto: Don’t Trust, Verify: Poisoned AI Links Expose a Nightmare for Crypto Workers

Latest reporting indicates that this week, the co-founder of Refi Hub, Numa Lunah, explained that he was compromised by following a download link delivered inside a Claude chat window.

The warning is a wake-up call to blockchain and crypto industry workers, as links, skills, and other packages can lead to irreversible theft.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is gathering traction every day, and people who work in the digital asset and distributed ledger sector leverage the technology on a regular basis for their jobs.

The problem is, this demographic is explicitly hunted by malicious attackers, and secrets that cannot be easily revoked could be stolen.

On Friday, Refi Hub co-founder Numa Lunah explained that he “got hacked.” “Got hacked yesterday,” he wrote on X.

Claude sent the download link, and I pasted the command into the terminal.

It ran instantly, tried to take everything from me.” The developer added that nothing sensitive of his escaped, and he wiped the laptop he was using and rebuilt it from a clean install.

“Restoring from the backup, I found a poisoned SKILL.md for Claude Code.