Certik: In the first half of 2025, losses from encryption hacker attacks and scams exceeded $2.5 billion.

[Certik: In the first half of 2025, crypto hacker attacks and scams resulted in losses exceeding $2.5 billion] According to the Hack3d report released by CertiK, the cryptocurrency industry suffered losses exceeding $2.47 billion due to hacker attacks and scams in the first half of 2025, surpassing the total amount for all of 2024. Among them, losses from CEX vulnerabilities and the Cetus protocol vulnerabilities totaled $1.78 billion. Wallet leak incidents were the main cause, resulting in $1.7 billion in losses, while phishing attacks caused a total loss of $410 million across 132 incidents. Ethereum was the most attacked chain, involved in 164 incidents with losses reaching $1.5 billion. Nevertheless, the total loss in the second quarter was $801 million, a decrease of 52% compared to the previous quarter.