{"id":34574,"date":"2025-07-01T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=34574"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:31:48","slug":"crypto-investors-lost-2-5b-to-hacks-and-scams-in-the-first-half-of-2025-certik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=34574","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Investors Lost $2.5B to Hacks and Scams in the First Half of 2025: Certik"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hackers stole more than $2.47 billion worth of cryptocurrency in the first half of 2025, already exceeding last year’s total of $2.42 billion, according to Certik’s Hack3d Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The majority of that figure can be attributed to two incidents; the Bybit breach<\/a> and the Cetus Protocol exploit<\/a> that combined were worth $1.78 billion.<\/p>\n

Wallet compromise was the key attack vectors for hackers in the first half of this year, contributing to $1.7 billion worth of losses, while phishing was still rampant resulting in $410 million stolen across 132 incidents.<\/p>\n

Phishing is a technique hackers use to steal a victim’s password or credentials in order to access an account.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the overall figures are alarming, it is important to point out that the majority of the funds lost in H1 were attributable to two concentrated, high-impact events,\u201d said CertiK co-founder Ronghui Gu. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut regardless, the results serve as another reminder to the industry that there is still much work to be done,\u201d Gu added. <\/p>\n

The report also found that $801 million was lost in Q2 alone, a 52% decrease from the previous quarter. The majority of hacks took place on Ethereum, with $1.5 billion stolen across 164 incidents, followed by Bitcoin with $373 million stolen across 10 incidents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hackers stole more than $2.47 billion worth of cryptocurrency in the first half of 2025, already exceeding last year’s total of $2.42 billion, according to Certik’s Hack3d Report. The majority of that figure can be attributed to two incidents; the Bybit breach and the Cetus Protocol exploit that combined were worth $1.78 billion. Wallet compromise […]<\/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-34574","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\/34574","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=34574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}