{"id":88345,"date":"2026-05-01T08:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=88345"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:37:31","slug":"north-korea-linked-hackers-make-april-the-worst-month-for-crypto-hacking-by-incident-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=88345","title":{"rendered":"North Korea-Linked Hackers Make April The Worst Month For Crypto Hacking By Incident Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>April saw the highest number of cryptocurrency hacking incidents on record, compounding challenges for an industry grappling with a bear market.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crypto Hacks Hit A 14-Month High<\/h2>\n<p>DeFiLlama, a decentralized finance analytics platform, posted an X chart highlighting a dramatic rise in monthly incidents during April, reaching nearly 30 and far above historical peaks.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers stole $635.24 million in April, the highest monthly total since <strong>Bybit\u2019s <\/strong>infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/02\/43901027\/bybit-offers-140m-bounty-in-wake-of-14b-eth-hack-investigation-focuses-on-safe\">$1.4 billion exchange heist<\/a> in February 2025.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Infamous Cases<\/h2>\n<p>The biggest hack of the month was the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51905163\/crypto-billionaire-offers-talks-north-korea-linked-hacker-290m-defi-exploit\">$290\u00a0million exploit<\/a> of <strong>KelpDAO&#8217;s<\/strong> liquid restaking protocol, followed closely by <strong>Drift Protocol&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51633954\/north-korea-strikes-again-285-million-exploit-raises-questions-for-circle\">$285\u00a0million exploit<\/a>. Both incidents were linked to North Korean state-sponsored hackers.<\/p>\n<p>In the KelpDAO incident, the hacker targeted a cross-chain bridge, powered by\u00a0interoperability protocol\u00a0<strong>LayerZero<\/strong>, and robbed restaked\u00a0<strong>Ethereum\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(CRYPTO:\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ETH<\/a>). &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52205487\/north-korea-linked-hackers-make-april-the-worst-month-for-crypto-hacking-by-incident-count?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"North\" korea-linked hackers make april the worst month for crypto hacking by incident count>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April saw the highest number of cryptocurrency hacking incidents on record, compounding challenges for an industry grappling with a bear market. Crypto Hacks Hit A 14-Month High DeFiLlama, a decentralized finance analytics platform, posted an X chart highlighting a dramatic rise in monthly incidents during April, reaching nearly 30 and far above historical peaks. Hackers [&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-88345","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\/88345","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=88345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}