According to News.bitcoin, the latest TRM cryptocurrency crime report shows a surge in cryptocurrency theft cases in the first half of 2025, with at least 75 attacks resulting in over $2.1 billion stolen, almost equal to the total in 2024 and surpassing the first half record set in 2022. However, the report shows that the $1.5 billion Bybit hacking incident that occurred in February accounted for nearly 70% of the total losses. Apart from the huge losses in February, January, April, May, and June were the only four months with losses exceeding $100 million. Only the loss in March was less than $100 million.
The report concludes that "in the first half of 2025, crimes committed by groups related to North Korea accounted for $1.6 billion of the total stolen funds, approximately 70% of all stolen funds." At the same time, the TRM team found that infrastructure attacks such as private key and mnemonic theft or front-end intrusion accounted for over 80% of stolen funds in the first half of 2025. On the other hand, protocol vulnerabilities account for 12%, highlighting the persistent vulnerabilities in DeFi smart contracts.
