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About $766.4 million was lost to cryptocurrency hacking and phishing in September, marking the largest monthly total this year, blockchain security firm CertiK said, according to The Defiant. The bulk of the losses came from Bitget at $387.5 million and…

Layer-one blockchain Sui said it had blocked and removed 3,023 phishing and impersonation threats targeting its ecosystem in partnership with security firm ChainPatrol. The move is part of Sui’s $10 million ecosystem security expansion initiative. ChainPatrol is detecting impersonation accounts…

Crypto hacks this year reached as many as 277 incidents through the end of September, with total losses estimated at about $1.84 billion, Crypto Briefing reported, citing DefiLlama. On a full-year basis in 2025, about $2.715 billion was lost across…

A former UK National Crime Agency investigator has been ordered to repay 1.81 million pounds ($2.4 million) after stealing 50 BTC from a seized wallet during a dark web probe, Decrypt reported. According to the UK Crown Prosecution Service, Bristol…

Ostium, an Arbitrum-based decentralized platform for tokenized asset perpetual futures, has fully compensated losses at 3,321 wallets affected by a July hack and proposed a separate recovery plan to the remaining 345 affected wallets, Crypto Briefing reported. According to the…

About $295.4 million in user funds was stolen in the April 1 hack, and the attacker has been identified as North Korea-linked threat group UNC6862, the Drift Foundation said on X. The foundation said it had investigated the incident and…

North Korean hackers behind the Bitget breach have begun moving about 2,700 ZEC, worth roughly $3.8 million, to Zcash’s shielded pool Ironwood, ZachXBT said. Earlier, about 18,900 ZEC, valued at roughly $28.3 million, was stolen from a Bitget hot wallet.

Privacy-focused layer-one blockchain Zano said it will fully reimburse users for balances affected by a recent inflation vulnerability. The project said it applied emergency patches, including rolling the network back to its state from a month earlier, and added the…

Crypto exchange Bitget has begun rebuilding its Protection Fund after a hacking incident, with on-chain data showing that 2,000 BTC, worth about $166 million, was transferred from a Bitget cold wallet to the user protection fund address over the past…

SlowMist said its investigation into the wallet asset theft that occurred on Sept. 25 at Bitget’s request found signs that a zero-day vulnerability in a system used by an external security vendor was exploited. A zero-day vulnerability refers to an…