Bibit Heist Fuels recording Cripto-Theft Surge, says Certik

The cropto theft is on the rise, and the first quarter of 2025, as reported, violates records for the largest amount of digital assets stolen in history, according to the certification.

Blocckain Security Firm has published Hack3D: K1 2025 Report 2. April 2025

The report discovered that hackers stole over 1.67 billion dollars in digital assets during 197 security incidents in the first quarter of 2025. Year, marking the growing 303% increase from the previous quarter.

This transmission was primarily encouraged Bibit HackThe most significant crypt of theft in history, which described the certical as a “critical point of request in the security of the Web3.”

After that, a violation was followed by Phemex at $ 71.714,297.40, to 49,514,532.79 dollars and MiM spells at Hungary 12,906,772.04 USD.

Ronghui Gu, Certik Co-founder, commented: “Breach of Bitit is an invitation to awaken the entire industry. Security is not only a competitive edge – it is a common responsibility.”

Through the industry, the average loss per incident was $ 9,549,339, and the middle loss per incident was $ 66,303. The total value of the returned funds amounted to Hrd. 6,390,698, which resulted in adapted total losses of 1,662,66,186,186, indicating that less than 0.4% of stolen funds were returned to customers.

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Ethereum, Upper Hanger Goal

As for cryptocurrents and blockades affected by crypto-theft, Etherem experienced the largest number of security incidents during the reported period, with a total of 98 hacking, fraud and feats that lead to losses of $ 1,540,843,886.

The Smart Binance Chain followed (BSC) with $ 6,233,636 lost in 52 incidents, $ 4.534,494 lost in eight incidents and a throne with $ 3,188,021 lost in one incident.

COMPROMISS Wallet, most lucrative vector attacks

The Certik report He discovered that the compromise of the wallet was the ramest attack vector, allowing hackers to steal 1.45 billion dollars over only three cyber incidents.

Attacks that will use phishing campaigns and vulnerabilities of the use of codes in cryptocursions and Blocchain projects were most common during the submitted period, with 81 incidents involving phishing and 68 inclusion of the vulnerability of the code.

“Hackers use all more sophisticated techniques, and is now more important than ever for Blocchain company and projects to proactively invest in robust security measures,” GU adds added.

The “comprehensive, multilayer approach is essential. Real-time audits, real-time monitoring, implementation plans, vulnerability assessment, evaluation assessments and employee awareness training should be treated as a norm, not an exception.”

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