A Coldcard firmware flaw helped fuel a brutal 2026 crypto theft wave, with TRM Labs reporting more than $1.2 billion stolen across 276 incidents. The lesson is blunt: self-custody beats exchanges, but bad firmware, weak entropy, and sloppy security can still wreck you.
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Crypto theft stayed ugly in H1 2026, with a record 207 incidents and $972 million lost, even as damage fell from last year’s brutal totals. The real warning: smaller exploits rose, but operational failures and North Korea-linked thefts still did the heaviest damage.
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Crypto hacks hit a record 207 incidents in H1 2026, but losses came in at $972M, below the $1B mark. TRM Labs says smart contract bugs drove the most attacks, while key thefts and infrastructure failures caused most of the damage.
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Researchers say North Korea-linked groups were behind about $643 million of the $972 million stolen in crypto hacks during H1 2026. The damage was driven by DeFi exploits, private key leaks, and bridge failures, with Ethereum hit hardest and most funds still unrecovered.
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TRM Labs says H1 2026 set a record for crypto hacks by incident count, even as losses fell to $972 million. With North Korea-linked attackers, key theft, and DeFi infrastructure failures still doing the damage, the message is blunt: more hacks, same ugly weak points.
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North Korean-linked hackers have turned South Korea into one of crypto’s most active battlegrounds, with the Lazarus Group tied to major exchange breaches, laundering pipelines, and scam networks that keep evolving faster than enforcement can lock them down. Lazarus Group linked to 6 of 9 major South Korean exchange hacks More than $120 million confirmed […]
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Crypto hacks have crossed a grim milestone: more than $17 billion stolen over the past decade, according to DefiLlama data. The pattern is getting uglier, too — attackers are moving away from pure smart contract bugs and straight toward private keys, phishing, credential theft, and bridge infrastructure. 518 hacks logged since 2014 Over $17 billion […]
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Web3 Security Threats: $482 Million Lost to Crypto Hacks in Q1 2026 Brace yourselves, crypto warriors—Web3 is taking heavy fire, and the battlefield has shifted off-chain. A new report from cybersecurity firm Hacken reveals that cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects lost over $482 million across 44 incidents in the first quarter of 2026, with […]
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US Treasury Unveils Cybersecurity Program for Crypto Firms Amid Rising Hacks and Threats The US Department of the Treasury has stepped into the fray with a new initiative to fortify cybersecurity for digital asset firms, a timely response to the relentless wave of hacks and scams battering the crypto industry. Announced on Thursday, this program, […]
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Crypto Hacks Surge 96% in March 2023: $52M Lost in DeFi and Exchange Breaches March 2023 delivered a harsh blow to the cryptocurrency world with a staggering 96% surge in hacks, resulting in $52 million in losses across various platforms. This alarming spike exposes critical weaknesses in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and centralized exchanges, casting […]
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