The majority of incidents took place on the Ethereum network, followed by Bitcoin.
Projects tied to Pepe meme creator Matt Furie and the NFT studio ChainSaw lost roughly $1 million to contract takeover exploits last week, according to on-chain investigator ZachXBT. On June 27, ZachXBT reported transaction records showing that the attacker seized control of the “Replicandy” contract at 4:25 a.m. UTC on June 18 by transferring ownership […]
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The first half of 2025 exposed deep vulnerabilities in the crypto industry, with hackers stealing over $2.1 billion across 75 separate incidents. This marks a 10% increase from the previous H1 record of $2 billion in 2022 and nearly matches the full-year figure for 2024, which closed at $2.2 billion, according to a report from […]
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Iran's largest crypto exchange Nobitex was allegedly hacked by a pro-Israel hacker group last week, resulting in losses of over $90 million.
Lending protocol zkLend stated in a June 25 post on X that it will wind down its operations and direct its remaining $200,000 treasury to a fund for users affected by a February security breach. The team said the exploit “deeply eroded user confidence” and ZEND’s delisting from Bybit and KuCoin amplified the negative sentiment […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Cointelegraph, one of the leading crypto media platforms, has confirmed a front-end security breach that exposed its users to a malicious pop-up urging them to connect their wallets. The incident, which occurred on June 22, involved scammers promoting a fake Cointelegraph token (CTG) and a counterfeit initial coin offering (ICO) campaign. Scam Sniffer, a blockchain […]
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A new wave of cyberattacks shows the DPRK is exploiting the crypto industry’s recruitment funnel, using fake LinkedIn job offers, deep‑fake Zoom calls, and backdoored interview files to access Web3 developers’ wallets and repositories. With seasoned developer talent already thinning and open‑source protocols increasingly reliant on individual contributors, the stakes have never been higher. North […]
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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announced a new open-source password manager, PearPass, after an unprecedented 16 billion passwords were leaked in what experts now call the largest credential breach ever recorded. Ardoino wrote: “The cloud has failed us. Again. 16 billion passwords just leaked. It’s time to ditch the cloud.” He pledged that PearPass will work […]
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Iranian crypto exchange Nobitex has confirmed that it lost nearly $100 million in a cyberattack by a politically motivated hacking group. The breach, which occurred on July 18, has shaken the local crypto community and triggered a government-imposed curfew on crypto trading platforms nationwide. The attack was claimed by an Israel-linked group calling itself Gonjeshke […]
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The pro-Israel group Gonjeshke Darande follows through on its threats, publishing the full exchange code and security files, thereby placing the remaining Nobitex assets at risk.
Hacker group Gonjeshke Darande leaked what is claimed to be source codes of the Iranian crypto trading platform Nobitex.
A North Korean developer gained elevated privileges inside Waves Protocol’s Keeper-Wallet codebase, according to a June 18 report by Ketman. The report highlighted routine scans for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) activity on GitHub, which uncovered the account “AhegaoXXX” pushing updates to Keeper-Wallet. The wallet’s repositories showed no legitimate commits after August 2023, yet […]
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North Korea’s hackers has reportedly stolen nearly $2 billion from centralized crypto exchanges over the past year. Blockchain security researcher Tay Monahan attributes a significant portion of those funds, around $1.8 billion, to a series of major hacks targeting centralized crypto trading platforms like Bybit, DMM Bitcoin, WazirX, Phemex, and BingX. Despite setbacks such as […]
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Iranian crypto exchange Nobitex has suffered a major security breach, resulting in the loss of over $48 million. The company confirmed the attack via an X post on June 18, revealing that the incident targeted its hot wallets. It stated: “This morning our technical team detected signs of unauthorized access to a portion of our […]
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ZachXBT said the alleged attacker used a vanity address, which contained the words 'IRGC' and 'terrorists.'
The Paraguayan government made an official statement that President Santiago Peña’s verified X account was hacked and published an unauthorized declaration that Bitcoin (BTC) would be made legal tender on June 9. The post also included a false plan to establish a Bitcoin treasury and add $5 million in BTC. The compromised account displayed an image […]
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President Santiago Peña's social media post also linked to a Bitcoin address and encouraged citizens to "invest."
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The crypto exchange said the Singapore High Court declined its proposed restructuring plan following a $230 million exploit last year.
Crypto exchange WazirX suffered a major legal blow after the Singapore High Court rejected its restructuring proposal to relaunch operations following a $230 million hack in July 2024. On June 4, WazirX announced that its request for court approval had been denied, saying: “The Honourable Singapore High Court issued an order declining to approve our […]
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Secret knowledge, sudden split: the crypto exchange faces mounting legal and regulatory heat for a four-month silence over a breach affecting at least 69,000 customers. Coinbase was alerted as early as January 2025 that hackers had siphoned tens of thousands of customer records from one of its overseas support vendors, but the exchange waited until […]
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The largest attack was the $225 million exploit of the Cetus Protocol.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The largest crypto loss in May came from Cetus Protocol, which lost an about $225 million, although the protocol recovered $162 million from Sui validators.
Force, a cross-chain bridge on Nervos Network, has lost about $3 million in ETH, stablecoins, and wrapped BTC in an apparent DeFi hack.
ZachXBT said there were suspicious outflows from hot wallets on multiple networks including Tron, Ethereum, Solana and Polygon.
Validators representing nearly 91% of Sui stake approved an on-chain proposal to release about $162 million seized during last week’s Cetus exploit, allowing the DEX to reimburse users and restore full operations. Cetus said in a social media post that the 48-hour referendum closed on May 29 when more than two-thirds of the network endorsed […]
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Cetus eyes full protocol resumption in a week after a Sui community proposal to return frozen funds passed with 90% backing from stakers and validators.
Sui-based protocol Cetus said on May 27 that it can reimburse every user affected by its May 22 exploit if Sui token holders approve the return of frozen funds in an upcoming on-chain vote. Cetus said in a May 27 social media post that its cash and token reserves, combined with a secured loan from […]
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