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- September Crypto Incidents Logged $767 Million to $768 Million in Losses
Separate security-industry tallies counted 55 major incidents and 97 total incidents during September, with Bitget and Liquid Network accounting for most losses.
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- Web3 Security Losses Hit $793 Million Across 39 September Incidents
September losses were about 4.2 times August’s total and 2.5 times July’s, with a Bitget hot-wallet incident accounting for the largest single loss.
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- MetaMask Withdraws Affected Validators After Infrastructure Incident
The company said it has found no evidence of a direct threat to MetaMask wallets and is coordinating with customers, partners and security advisers.
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- MetaMask Responds to Infrastructure Security Incident; No Direct Wallet Threat Identified So Far
The company is working with external partners and security advisers while coordinating a precautionary exit from affected validators in its staking operation.
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- Bitget-Linked Wallets Move $3.9 Million Into Zcash Shielded Pool
The transfers followed the blocking of more than $50 million in attempted Bitget-linked flows by NEAR Intents’ SHIELD system.
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- Bitget Exploit Funds Move Into Zcash Pool After $50M Swap Attempts
Wallets linked to the Sept. 24 hack transferred about $3.9 million in ZEC into Ironwood after NEAR Intents rejected attempted swaps tied to the breach.
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- Paper Challenges Slashing As Sole Defense Against Proof-of-Stake Attacks
A theoretical model lets validators coordinate before signing conflicting messages and proceed only if their combined stake reaches a required threshold.
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- Sui-ChainPatrol Partnership Blocks 842 Threats Across More Than 11 Platforms
The multiyear initiative provides real-time protection for more than 30 Sui ecosystem projects through a $10 million security program.
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- Coinbase Denies Hiding Hacks After $25 Million BlockTower Claim
BlockTower founder Ari Paul alleged losses involving at least 12 firms exceeded $1 billion. Coinbase denied hiding hacks or losing $1 billion.
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- Ostium Says 90.59% of Affected Wallets Qualify for Full Repayment
The July attack removed about $23.75 million from Ostium’s liquidity pool. A second recovery phase will depend on recovered funds and protocol revenue.
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- Ostium Opens Recovery Portal for 90.6% of Affected OLP Holders
The first phase covers 3,321 of 3,666 affected wallets. Claims and recovery-plan choices carry deadlines in October and December.
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- Ostium Recovery Plan Repays 3,321 Wallets in Full, Leaves 345 to Choose
The plan provides full repayment for 3,321 wallets, while 345 wallets must choose how to proceed with their claims.
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- Drift Freezes $9.2 Million in Stolen Funds as 107,165 ETH Sits
Three wallets holding the stolen Ether remain inactive, while about 23,094 ETH was moved to Tornado Cash in July.
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- Drift Foundation Says $295 Million Was Stolen in April Exploit
About 107,200 Ether remains in three wallets, while $9.2 million in frozen assets awaits legal procedures for release and return.
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- Solv Protocol Says Risk Review Delayed Redemption of About 50 BTC
The protocol said the assets remain held within BTC+ and that normal deposits and redemptions continue, while a user says the funds have been inaccessible since July.
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- 246.74 ZEC Entered Zcash Shielded Pool After Bitget Breach
Unauthorized transfers totaled approximately $387.5 million. Eight transactions involving 246.74 ZEC were provisionally linked to Bitcoin swaps.
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- Earliest Bitget Attack Activity Traced to Aug. 31
The interim investigation found suspected intrusions across third-party security systems and wallet infrastructure before verified asset transfers began Sept. 25.
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- Mandiant Links Bitget Wallet Breach to Third-Party Security Devices
Attackers accessed some third-party security devices before entering Bitget’s exchange wallet environment and obtaining access to hot and warm wallets during the Sept. 24 incident.
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- SlowMist Links Bitget Theft to Zero-Day Flaw and Custom Tool
The Sept. 25 attack lasted nearly three hours across multiple blockchains and later involved attempts to alter withdrawal records.
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- Zcash Token Holders Approve $1.5 Million Orchard Bug Reward
Two proposals would pay Taylor Hornby $750,000 each for discovering the vulnerability and an additional community-nominated reward.
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- Velocity Relaunches After Hack as Co-Founder Cindy Steps Down
The former Drift Protocol exchange completed a security rebuild, an audit and full code release before restarting operations.
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- PPV2 Exploit Remains Active as Users Urged to Revoke Approvals
A wallet lost 0.15246 WETH after accepting an offer, with nearly all of the funds paid as a tip to Titan Builder.
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- Illicit Crypto Addresses Received At Least $154 Billion in 2025
Stablecoins processed $28 trillion in adjusted economic volume as attackers adopted artificial intelligence faster than defenders and crypto theft exceeded $3.4 billion.
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- Bitget CEO Says Scammers Targeted Her After $387.5 Million Hack
Gracy Chen said impostors posed as an investment firm’s team on Sept. 28, four days after attackers stole about $387.5 million from Bitget.
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- Bitget CEO Sees Limited Prospects for Recovering $388M Breach Funds
Gracy Chen pointed to Bybit’s recovery record as a benchmark, while Bitget has offered rewards for frozen and recovered assets.
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- Bitget CEO Challenges THORChain After $387.5 Million Wallet Breach
Gracy Chen wants THORChain to block addresses tied to Bitget’s Sept. 24 breach, while the protocol says its emergency controls cannot freeze individual wallets or swaps.
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- Token Metadata Can Trigger Prompt Injections in AI Trading Agents
Embedded text may prompt token purchases, asset transfers or unlimited authorizations. About $215,000 tied to a Bankr-related wallet was transferred in May.
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- Bitget Revises Crypto Theft Estimate to Approximately $387.5 Million
The exchange detected unauthorized transfers Sept. 24, paused withdrawals and later began restoring them in phases after adding Zcash and TRON transactions to its estimate.
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- Ari Paul Alleges Coinbase Lost $25M in BlockTower Funds
The BlockTower founder also alleged concealed losses exceeding $1 billion across more than a dozen financial institutions.
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- Circle Strands $201,000 Linked to Bitget Theft Between Blockchains
A transfer from Noble hit the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol limit and entered a pending state before Circle blacklisted the target address.
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- BlockTower Founder Alleges Coinbase Concealed $1B Hacking Campaign
Ari Paul said BlockTower lost $25 million years ago and identified at least 10 other affected institutions. He cited ongoing legal proceedings.
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- Bitget Hack-Linked Wallet’s Chainflip Transfer Rejected by Broker
About 100 Solana tokens entered Chainflip Vault before the broker rejected the deposit and returned the funds to the wallet.
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- Bitget Reports $388 Million Crypto Theft From Hot and Warm Wallets
The exchange said forged withdrawal commands moved funds from part of its hot and warm wallets, while customer balances and cold wallets were unaffected.
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- NEAR Intents Identifies More Than $50 Million in Transfers Linked to Bitget Attack
Only about $166,000 in attempted transfers was completed, while another $503,000 was frozen and remains restricted.
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- Bitget Hit by $387.5 Million Theft as NEAR Freezes $503,000
Most of the stolen funds moved across blockchains and later concentrated on Ethereum.
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- Bitget Raises Loss Estimate to $387.5 Million After Wallet Breach
The exchange said cold wallets and user balances were unaffected, while blockchain records showed funds moving across eight networks for nearly three hours.
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- THORChain Rejects Bitget Plea as $6.3 Million Moves to Bitcoin
Twenty-seven swaps converted about 2,390 Ether into 75.2 Bitcoin after Bitget’s Sept. 24 breach, which the exchange valued at $387.5 million.
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- ZachXBT Says $387 Million Stolen From Bitget Is Being Routed Through Mixers
The funds are moving through cross-chain bridges and mixer services, while an operator known as Alias 4 is tied to earlier laundering activity.
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- ZachXBT Seeks Help Tracing Funds Tied to $387 Million Bitget Attack
The investigator said suspected North Korea-linked launderers are soliciting fund-transfer assistance on Discord and Telegram as assets move across chains.
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- Scammers Drain $2 Million Through Fake GIWA Blockchain
About 1,333 wallets deposited 767 ETH into a counterfeit network that mimicked GIWA’s planned Ethereum Layer 2 mainnet.
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