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DeFi lender drained in oracle exploit, about $120 million at risk
A large on-chain lending protocol was drained for roughly $120 million in a July 2026 oracle-manipulation exploit, underscoring persistent smart-contract risk even as DeFi TVL climbs to multi-year highs.
Coinbase discloses insider-led data breach affecting at least 69,000 customers
Coinbase revealed that criminals bribed overseas support staff to steal customer data, refused a $20 million ransom, and warned remediation could cost up to $400 million.
Bybit suffers a record $1.5 billion hack blamed on North Korea's Lazarus Group
In February 2025 Bybit lost nearly $1.5 billion of Ethereum in the largest crypto heist on record. Investigators tied it to a breached Safe{Wallet} developer machine, and the FBI blamed North Korea's Lazarus Group.
Cross-chain bridge exploit revives the case against custodial message passing
A cross-chain bridge lost a substantial sum to a compromise of its validator set, repeating a failure pattern documented in most major bridge incidents of the past five years.
State-linked laundering flows draw fresh enforcement attention
Investigators report that laundering pipelines linked to sanctioned actors have shortened conversion times and increased cross-chain hops, while remaining traceable at the off-ramp.
Restaking concentration builds correlation risk that few holders have priced
Restaking allows one pool of staked collateral to secure multiple services, creating correlated slashing exposure that current risk disclosures largely fail to quantify.