Stay secure in the digital age. This section covers crypto hacks, wallet vulnerabilities, exchange breaches, and blockchain security upgrades. Learn how to protect your assets and understand the threats facing Web3 and DeFi platforms.
In 2025, crypto hacks totaled $3.4B across 300+ incidents, where social-engineering and access-control failures dominated. Let’s look at the major ones.
After a $50M USDT theft via “address poisoning,” CZ urges wallets to auto-block spoofed addresses, hide dust spam, and add stronger send warnings.
SEC links AI-branded group chats, fake crypto platforms, and deepfake guru marketing into one $14M fraud narrative and a fresh warning shot at retail-facing “AI trading” plays.
A $2.7M oracle hit is one problem for Aevo; a 19% payback cap on a 32% vault loss is another for anyone still underwriting Ribbon risk.
Consob’s MiCAR calendar turns Italy’s once light VASP regime into a license-or-leave decision for crypto platforms.
MetaMask debuts Transaction Shield: a $9.99/mo plan that refunds up to $10K/month if its checks mislabel a malicious tx.
OKX CEO Star Xu offers a 10 BTC reward for proof of a backdoor in OKX Wallet after a 50 ETH theft, inviting global security review.
The Shiba Inu team has frozen 4.6 million BONE after PeckShield pointed out that there was an attack on Shibarium bridge.
Bitcoin whales have sold over $12.75 billion in BTC in the past month, raising fears of further price pressure in the coming weeks.
The decentralized finance sector has witnessed yet another hack, right in the midst of a bull run.
American crypto users missed billions of dollars in potential earnings due to the geoblocking policies.
THORChain reportedly generated $5.5M in transaction fees from the surge in activity linked to the laundering of Bybit’s stolen funds.
North Korea’s Lazarus group, reportedly behind the Bybit hack, has laundered all 499,000 stolen ETH leveraging crypto mixers and DEXs.
Bybit’s Ethereum cold wallet was compromised on February 21, resulting in a $1.46 billion theft linked to North Korea’s state-sponsored Lazarus Group, adding to their multibillion-dollar crypto crime spree.
FBI officially attributes February’s record-breaking $1.5 billion Bybit cryptocurrency hack to North Korean state-sponsored hackers who used sophisticated deception techniques targeting cold storage.