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A handful of mega-breaches now define the industry's annual security tally, and a state-sponsored adversary sits behind 37% of the bill, raising the stakes for every exchange and protocol custody…
The reported $350M Bitget breach would make the latest incident a major addition to a year already marked by more than $1B in crypto theft attributed to North Korean hackers.
The $351.6M breach remains under investigation, and frozen or recovered assets could reduce the eventual loss. Withdrawals stay suspended until security checks are complete.
The attribution, if confirmed, would put a major exchange breach in the spotlight of state-linked cybercrime and raise fresh questions about stolen-fund recovery.
Bitget says its user protection fund exceeds $464 million, a reserve it says is sufficient to cover the loss after the hot-wallet transfers.
The campaign spans more than 100 countries and regions, putting crypto users at risk through a malware operation linked to North Korea.
Public ledgers are becoming durable malware coordination layers, forcing defenders to monitor wallets, smart contracts and RPC traffic instead of relying only on server takedowns.
A founder in the middle of his own federal money-laundering trial accusing AI platforms of arming Pyongyang is a story about the messenger as much as the message.
The case puts identity checks at the center of crypto security, where fundraising, recruiting and partnerships can become attack surfaces.
The DPRK has spent years turning remote crypto hiring into a sanctions-evasion pipeline, and documenting how the bait works is one of the only public defences the rest of the industry has.
The case highlights the gap between legal authority and asset recovery: court backing can support tracing, but it cannot guarantee stolen funds become recoverable.
If confirmed, the rare domestic enforcement action against Pyongyang's financial-crime apparatus signals a tactical recalibration, not a policy turn, on overseas crypto theft.
Pyongyang's own intelligence agency detained former military hackers accused of raiding state banks and cashing out through cross-border OTC desks, an unusual insider crackdown inside a regime that…
The blast radius is upstream of any exploit: a compromised developer laptop at a subcontractor can inject tainted code into a wallet used by tens of millions before the next release ships.
The same day Treasury named nine individuals and 26 entities tied to a $10B Southeast Asia scam network, a DeFi coalition went public pledging to set enforceable operational standards before…
Quantstamp's investigation into the June 8 Humanity Protocol H token incident is public, and the firm's findings point…
Only ~$1.7M remains in the original wallets — the laundering path through THORChain, Wasabi, Tornado Cash, and Umbra has closed the window for direct transaction-level recovery.
Two crypto exploits last month drained nearly $600 million in combined losses, with investigators linking both attacks…
The order is a narrow procedural win for the recovery plan — but the restraining notice now follows the ETH wherever it lands, keeping terrorism judgment creditors one step behind the protocol.
A $3.8M seed pool and tokenized loss claims try to bridge a $295.4M gap — but relaunch as a security-first venue is the bigger industry test after Aave's Kelp DAO rescue.
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