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North Korean state-sponsored hackers dominate crypto crime in 2026 and have stolen six billion dollars since 2017. The $285 million Drift attack illustrates a new and more dangerous attack strategy.
A severe validation error in Litecoin's MWEB privacy layer enabled an attacker to generate over 85,000 LTC from nothing in March 2026. A coordinated crisis effort saved the situation – but in April, another actor struck, resulting in a 13-block chain reorganization.
A federal judge has rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's petition for a new trial, characterizing it as an attempt to repair his reputation. The appeal to the Second Circuit is still ongoing.
The decentralized finance sector has suffered losses of over $600 million this year, and a recent attack on Kelp DAO has pushed the total value locked (TVL) down to its lowest level in a year.
A massive attack against Kelp DAO has resulted in losses of approximately $292 million in rsETH, triggered a liquidity crisis in Aave, and pushed the DeFi sector's TVL to its lowest level in a year.
A single security flaw in KelpDAO's bridge configuration triggered the largest DeFi hack of 2026 — quickly spreading to nine protocols, resulting in massive TVL drops.
A massive attack against Kelp DAO drained nearly $300 million in crypto assets and triggered a liquidity crisis across several major DeFi protocols. Experts point to a dangerous centralized vulnerability in the bridge architecture.
The liquid restaking protocol Kelp DAO was hit on April 18 by one of the year's largest DeFi hacks, with attackers stealing approximately $292 million by exploiting a vulnerability in the protocol's cross-chain bridge.
Attackers drained over 116,500 rsETH from Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered bridge on Saturday, triggering emergency shutdowns at Aave, SparkLend, and Fluid. It is the year's largest crypto exploit.
A counterfeit Ledger wallet sold via an online marketplace is equipped with a hidden chip and manipulated firmware that instantly sends the user's seed phrase and PIN to the attacker.
During a dramatic parliamentary debate in Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused crypto exchange Zondacrypto of having ties to the Russian mafia and intelligence services, and of lobbying against the government's regulatory legislation. On the same day, parliament voted down an attempt to override the president's veto against the country's MiCA legislation.
A six-month security program supported by the Ethereum Foundation has identified approximately 100 suspected North Korean IT workers hidden across 53 different Web3 projects worldwide.
A fake version of Ledger Live was available in the Mac App Store for nearly two weeks, draining over 50 victims of crypto assets worth approximately 90 million Norwegian kroner (around $9.5 million USD). Apple defends its procedures, but the security community is critical.
Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp warns that dormant Bitcoin addresses could become a catastrophic target for quantum computers, arguing that it is better to freeze them than to let attackers abscond with the assets.
World Liberty Financial has borrowed $75 million using its own illiquid tokens as collateral – now experts warn of systemic risk and compare the structure to the FTX collapse.
Crypto exchange Kraken reveals that criminal actors are attempting to extort the company following two separate security incidents related to internal support access and customer data exposure.
Researchers at the University of California set up a trap with a real Ethereum wallet — and an autonomous AI agent walked right into it. The incident reveals a new and serious security frontier for the crypto sector.
A severe security flaw in a popular Android SDK has put over 30 million crypto wallet installations at risk. Microsoft discovered the vulnerability in April 2025, but it took over half a year for an update to become available.
A researcher from StarkWare has developed a method that makes Bitcoin transactions quantum-resistant within today's consensus rules – but each transaction costs around 200 dollars.
US Bitcoin ATM operator Bitcoin Depot confirms hackers stole approximately 50.9 BTC from the company's own digital wallets in March 2026 — a loss of about $3.7 million.
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic points to North Korea as the highly probable actor behind the massive attack on the Solana-based Drift Protocol on April 1, 2026 — the largest DeFi hack so far this year.
North Korean intelligence agents infiltrated the DeFi protocol Drift over six months, met contributors face-to-face, and waited before siphoning off over $270 million.
A six-month-long infiltration operation – likely orchestrated by North Korean actors – resulted in approximately 2.4 billion Norwegian kroner being drained from the Solana exchange Drift Protocol in just 12 minutes.
Google's new quantum research has made headlines worldwide. But what does it actually mean for Bitcoin – and who is truly at risk?
On-chain investigator ZachXBT claims Circle failed to freeze over $420 million in USDC linked to hacks and scams since 2022 — and suggests the real figure could be far higher.
Drift Protocol on Solana was drained of approximately $285 million on April 1 this year. Both Elliptic and TRM Labs point to North Korean state-sponsored hackers as responsible.
Renowned on-chain investigator ZachXBT claims that USDC issuer Circle has repeatedly failed to freeze stolen funds since 2022 — at a total cost of over $420 million to the crypto ecosystem.
Renowned blockchain investigator ZachXBT claims Circle allowed over $420 million in stolen USDC to pass unhindered since 2022 – while simultaneously freezing 16 legitimate business accounts without sufficient justification.
Drift Protocol on the Solana blockchain was drained of approximately $285 million on the night of April 2. Blockchain investigators point to North Korea as a possible perpetrator.
The Solana-based Drift Protocol confirmed an active attack on April 1, 2026, which sent over $285 million out of the platform — more than half of the protocol's total value locked.
The SIREN token plummeted 85 percent in a single trading day after its launch on Binance, and analysts are now sharply criticizing the exchange for possible market manipulation.
Google has set 2029 as an internal deadline to phase out quantum-vulnerable cryptography. The Bitcoin community has not yet responded — but behind the scenes, one of the blockchain's most contentious technical debates is underway.
Senator Elizabeth Warren asks the Commerce Department to account for security threats from Chinese mining hardware — and requests documentation of contacts between Bitmain and the Trump family's crypto business.
The Resolv protocol was hacked for $25 million via a known structural weakness. The same attack pattern has drained hundreds of millions from DeFi protocols over the past year — and the industry built on regardless.
An attacker exploited a severe vulnerability in the Resolv USR protocol on Sunday, March 22, crashing the stablecoin down to 2.5 cents. The loss is estimated at between $23 and $25 million.
A page on Coinbase Commerce asked thousands of merchants to type in their 12-word seed phrases in plain text. Security experts reacted immediately, and the page was removed.
An attacker exploited a weakness in Venus Protocol's supply cap mechanism using THENA tokens and managed to extract crypto assets equivalent to $3.7 million from the BNB Chain protocol.
The Bonk.fun website was subjected to domain hijacking on March 11–12, 2026, where attackers injected a wallet-draining script that tricked users into approving fake terms — leading to real-time crypto losses.
A technical error in Aave's risk oracle triggered automatic liquidations of wstETH positions worth $26 million – seemingly without valid reason.
Quantum computers could in the future threaten Satoshi Nakamoto's estimated holding of around one million Bitcoin. Now, a Bitcoin developer has put forward a controversial proposal to limit the damage.
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