According to new data by Crypto Analysis firm Channelis, hackers have stolen more than $ 2 billion in Crypto during the first half of 2025, marking the worst year-by-year on record for Crypto theft.
Blockchain analysis company Said on Thursday in a new report The $ 2.17 billion stolen during the first half of 2025 has already crossed the lost crypto amount last year. Not only this, the amount of cryptocurrency stolen during the first six months of 2025 was about 17% more than the same period in 2022, which was the worst year on record for previously stolen crypto.
Most of this year’s stolen crypto was attributed to the same violation in the Crypto Exchange Bibit, which saw North Korean hackers steal more than $ 1.4 billion in CryptoA lot of it Later launched And in North Korean rule, copy FBI,
Channelis stated that Bibit Hack comes within a broad pattern of North Korean hack, “has become rapidly central for stolen strategies of regime.”
North Korea was largely cut off from the outside world and international banking system, in recent years, by targeting Western companies to steal cryptocurrency for the purpose of financing its approved nuclear weapons program. North Korea is also Thousands of distance IT workers trustedThose who infiltrate technical companies to earn a wage, steal intellectual property, and then help companies pay so as not to publish their sensitive files.
As A pre -chainlis reportNorth Korean hackers were convicted for almost two-thirds of all crypto hacks during 2024.
