According to the security company Blockchain, more than $ 2 billion in cryptocurrency were stolen by pirates in the first half of 2025.
Most of the total comes from $ 1.5 billion stolen from the Cryptographic Platform based in Dubai by Bybit in February by pirates linked to North Korea.
Until now, the $ 2.17 billion stolen have already exceeded the losses observed in 2024, and is the largest number seen in the first six months of a year since the start of the company in 2022.
Chainalysis estimates that up to $ 4 billion in cryptocurrency can be stolen by the end of the year.
The Bybit incident is currently the largest flight in cryptography and represents 69% of all stolen funds this year.
“Bybit’s hacking demonstrates that even the sophisticated industry entities remain vulnerable to advanced persistent threats, while the thrust of personal portfolio compromises shows that individual cryptocurrency holders are faced with unprecedented risks,” the researchers said.
“The geographic expansion of cryptographic crime and the correlation between asset prices and violent attacks add additional complexity to an already difficult security environment.”
Chain chain researchers have noted several other trends concerning, including an increase in personal portfolio compromises and so -called “key” attacks where physical violence or coercion is used against crypto holders.
The report revealed that average losses from personal compromise portfolios storing Bitcoin increased, illustrating that hackers probably left after larger value. There have already been the number of physical attacks twice in 2025 compared to the whole next highest year ever recorded.
The chain-analysis noted that there are probably more physical attacks that are not reported.
The United States, Germany, Russia, Canada, Japan, Indonesia and South Korea have experienced the highest concentration of victims of stolen funds.
Chainalysis’ data largely corresponds to numbers released By the Blockchain Intelligence Company, TRM Labs two weeks ago – which found $ 2.1 billion stolen from at least 75 hacks and separate exploits. TRM Labs also highlighted the attack linked to Israel in June against the greatest Iranian crypto exchange, Nobitex, which involved the theft of more than $ 90 million. In addition to the attacks of North Korea, he illustrated the growing role of nation states in cryptographic flight incidents.
The United Nations said last year that it followed dozens of incidents over a five -year period that brought in North Korea for 3 billion dollars.
Eric Jardine, manager of chainysis cybercrime research, said he said future news that the increase in the adoption of cryptocurrency as well as pricing appreciation had extended the ecosystem and, therefore, the frequency of thefts.
With more institutional security practices and regulatory executives in place, thieves have improved their own capacities and extended their range of targets, he explained.
“As an excellent example of this, unfortunately, (North Korea) continues to be a source of active threats to crypto users and Crypto services-its activity is based on last year, when we said that the RPDC represented 61% of the loss of funds stolen for the year,” he said.
“Part of this is due to the fact that the RPDC has been agile, constantly adapting its approaches, technical and tactical and has started to compromise not only high value services, but also many cryptographic companies on a smaller scale.”
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