Sysdig and BitMEX sound alarm on AI-powered crypto threats
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the most transformative – and destabilising – force in cybersecurity, with crypto and cloud platforms now at the sharpest edge of the threat landscape.
In an exclusive joint interview during Sysdig Accelerate ’25 in Sydney, Sergej Epp, CISO at Sysdig, and Florian Bielak, CISO at BitMEX, warned that AI is not just accelerating attacks but fundamentally reshaping how digital defences must be built, scaled, and trusted.
“The paramount risk, in my view, is privacy,” stated Bielak. He elaborated on how the proliferation of multimodal AI tools – which can process and generate audio, images, and diverse data streams – is effectively dissolving traditional control boundaries.
“These tools…
