Crypto hacks correspond to almost 2024 thanks to 1.4 billion US dollars bybit theft

This year is threatening for the crypto room – and it is only February.

Data from blockchain security company Immunefi show that the total money that is lost in hacks for 2025 Overall last year of 2.2 billion US dollars.

With a record of last week Bybit exploitThe number for 2025 is 1.6 billion US dollars.

Hackers stolen on Friday in a complex company Ethereum and Ethereum-related assets worth over $ 1.4 billion. The Feds now combine the attack with the notorious North Korean state-funded Lazarus group.

“The Crypto ecosystem recorded $ 1,602,258,100 in 2025 year 2025 in total losses, which corresponds to an increase at 8:00 a.m. compared to $ 200 million in the same period of the previous year,” said Immunefi.

It also added that the losses in February were more than in January when Hacker came away with 73.9 million US dollars.

The Bybit Exploit of last week was the biggest crypto hack in history. criminal Lazarus aimed at the centralized exchange and took control of an Ethereum cold letter bag during a routine transmission process.

Then they wash the stolen agents through decentralized stock exchanges and other veiled apps – typical of Lazarus, which was associated with several other attacks, in an offer to hide their traces and exchange the stolen Ethereum for Bitcoin, blockchain analysts said.

Last year was dangerous in crypto, and criminals not only aimed at the experimental and error -prone claim Defi World, but increasingly attacking central platforms – considered safe as safe.

Centralized stock exchanges are managed by companies, while apps and Dexs Function function automatically – and are therefore susceptible to errors and hacks.

Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin lost Over 4,500 bitcoins – at that time 308 million US dollars – for hackers in May last year.

Hackers have already reached two central platforms with massive heroic deeds: Bybit and Crypto Neo-Bank Infini– which lost almost 50 million US dollars on Monday – for most losses of 2025.

Published by James Rubin