2026-01-01 16:27:02

The crypto space faced a challenging 2025 regarding security. Approximately $3.4 billion in digital assets fell victim to theft, marking a significant threat to ecosystem participants.

Major incidents shaped this year's security landscape. The largest incident involved a prominent exchange suffering massive losses—around $1.46 to $1.5 billion vanished due to a supply-chain vulnerability that compromised multisig transaction signing mechanisms. This represented the most substantial crypto theft on record.

Other significant breaches followed. Cetus Protocol experienced approximately $223 million in losses. These events underscored critical vulnerabilities across platforms and protocols.

The patterns revealed suggest attackers increasingly targeted infrastructure-level weaknesses rather than individual wallets. Supply-chain compromises and multisig mechanism exploits emerged as dominant attack vectors. For traders and investors, these incidents highlight the importance of platform due diligence and security monitoring.

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StakeOrRegret

· 4h ago

3.4 billion gone, so you really need to watch your own wallet. But speaking of which, if big exchanges can be taken down, small retail investors like us need to be even more careful...

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FloorPriceWatcher

· 4h ago

3.4 billion gone... That's why I only dare to put small amounts on exchanges now. Cowardly. --- Can multisig also be hacked? Then what can we trust? LOL. --- 146 million evaporated at once. Truly outrageous. Are exchanges this dangerous these days? --- Supply chain attacks are getting more and more ridiculous. It feels like even big exchanges are not safe. --- 222 million Cetus also got hit? The market is so bleak, and now we have to worry about being hacked. Truly unbelievable. --- Self-custody wallets are still more secure, but ordinary people are afraid of losing their private keys. A dilemma. --- Infrastructure-level vulnerabilities... Basically, their defenses are just not good enough. --- Record-breaking thefts this year. It seems we need to take security more seriously. It's no joke. --- I just want to ask: with so many big platforms getting hacked, are their audits just for show?

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Hash_Bandit

· 4h ago

$3.4B gone in 2025... honestly, this hits different when you remember the early days where we actually *knew* our node operators. multisig getting pwned at the supply-chain level? that's not even a rug anymore, that's just... infrastructure rot. we built too fast, audited too slow.

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