{"id":34064,"date":"2025-06-27T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=34064"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:16:42","slug":"north-korean-hackers-top-crypto-exploits-list-but-another-state-may-surprise-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=34064","title":{"rendered":"North Korean Hackers Top Crypto Exploits List, But Another State May Surprise You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/government\/regulations\/25\/02\/43903335\/financial-crime-weekly-1-4-billion-ethereum-stolen-in-largest-crypto-hack-ever-sec-creates-cyber-and-emerging-technologies-unit\">Crypto hacks and exploits<\/a> have surged to record levels in the first half of 2025, with total losses exceeding $2.1 billion across at least 75 incidents, according to blockchain intelligence firm <strong>TRM Labs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trmlabs.com\/resources\/blog\/h1-2025-crypto-hacks-and-exploits-a-new-record-amid-evolving-threats\">figure<\/a> marks the highest-ever total for the first half of a year, surpassing the previous record set in the first half of 2022 by around 10%.<\/p>\n<p>The largest single event was the $1.5 billion hack of Dubai-based crypto exchange <strong>Bybit <\/strong>in February, which TRM Labs attributes to North Korea. <\/p>\n<p>The Bybit breach alone accounted for nearly 70% of total losses this year, significantly inflating the average hack size to nearly $30 million, double that of H1 2024.<\/p>\n<p>TRM Labs reported that North Korean-linked groups were responsible for approximately $1.6 billion in stolen assets during H1 2025, solidifying &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/06\/46140769\/north-korean-hackers-top-crypto-exploits-list-but-another-state-may-surprise-you\" alt=\"North\" korean hackers top crypto exploits list but another state may surprise you>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto hacks and exploits have surged to record levels in the first half of 2025, with total losses exceeding $2.1 billion across at least 75 incidents, according to blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs. What Happened: The figure marks the highest-ever total for the first half of a year, surpassing the previous record set in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-34064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}