# Attacks Shift From Code to People

As on-chain and exchange security improves, theft keeps migrating toward insiders with signing authority and toward physical coercion of individual holders, a risk class cryptography cannot address.

- Conviction: 40 / 100 (forming)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-08-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-08-05T05:44:57.010Z
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