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Story: Prem AI Launches CyberScan to Secure Bitcoin Firms After $116M Coldcard Hack

By Pankaj K

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What CyberScan Actually Does. The tool runs continuously against code repositories, which is the key distinction from a…

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Open Weights, Bitcoin First, Then Broader. Prem AI published open-weight models on Hugging Face.

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The Coldcard Incident Keeps Coming Up. It's worth sitting with that $116 million number for a second.

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Prem AI just dropped CyberScan. It's a continuous AI security audit tool aimed squarely at Bitcoin infrastructure, and the timing isn't subtle.

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The launch comes weeks after one of the more painful hardware wallet exploits in recent memory.

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ArkLabs and Breez were both in the beta.

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Both firms are serious Bitcoin infrastructure players, and both used CyberScan to comb through their production code during the testing phase.

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It integrates via API and something called the Model Context Protocol, which lets it plug into existing development workflows rather than forcing teams to build around it.

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Live progress updates are part of the package. So is customizable model selection for each scan, which gives teams some flexibility depending on what they're looking at.

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And there's an encrypted inference feature. That one matters a lot for financial services — it lets CyberScan operate autonomously without the company losing control over…

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Prem AI published open-weight models on Hugging Face. That's a deliberate transparency move — it lets the broader security community examine what the models are actually doing,…

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Bitcoin was chosen first, and Prem AI is pretty direct about why. It's a high-stakes environment. The code is largely open-source.

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Plans are in place to extend the tool beyond Bitcoin infrastructure. Similar vulnerabilities exist in other high-value sectors — financial services, critical infrastructure,…

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See also: Hyperscale Data Sells 686 Bitcoin for $43M but Faces Dire Financial Crisis

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