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Digital currency thefts are growing.
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The cost of criminals stolen cryprus is a wave of physical attacks targeting high profile hack and Crypto owners and relatives in the first six months of 2025.
So far, now $ 2.17 billion has been stolen from Crypto services – $ 1.87 billion stolen from platforms in 2024, and this is expected to reach $ 4 billion by the end of 2025. report Blockchoin analysis was published on Thursday by swingaliz analysis by the company.
In general, the combined value of digital tokens stolen from both crypto platforms and individuals is more than $ 2.8 billion and approaches $ 3.4 billion in cryptist.
The collection of funds stolen from the services came Cyberattack in February in Dubai Crypto Exchange BybitSeeing North Korea’s connected hackers, $ 1.5 billion. It is estimated that history is the largest cryptist.
However, the increase in the stolen cryptists was also managed by the spikes in the attacks on individual cryptoic wallets. Personal Wallets more than 23% of common thefts, the attackers considered the chain to become increasingly physical violence and compulsion.
In January, Crypto Wallet co-founder David Balland was abducted with his wife from the house in the center of France. Before releasing, the attackers cut the baby’s finger and sent the images of his co-founder Eric Larcheveke, who demanded the ransom.
Was separately, the father of a cryptist in May Broad in day by four people with ski masks. The kidnappers demanded a few million euros ransom and cut one of the man’s fingers. He was released by police after those days.
CNBC told CNBC that chain Eric Jardine, CNBC’s rising to CNBC, the increase in theft to CRPTOs, first of all, managed with the adoption and price assessment of cryptist.
“Adoption, more services and users are more common in the crypto ecosystem, the thefts are more common in theft, Crypto services and individuals are more than US dollars,” said Jardine said.
Jardine offered to relate to the security of Uptic Crypto-made trade services in attacks on individual cryptists.
“If the services are better in security, the harmful actors will potentially target individual wallet owners and trade from a large-scale topever in favor of a large number of small-scale pests,” he said.
Meanwhile, the rising wealth gathered with Holdings of Crycinals such as Bitcoin, caused a lifestyle in the social media platforms of Crypto.
Jardine is important not to blame the victims of the attacks on physical cryptist, “The demonstrations of wealth can attract the attention of the evil actor compared to a more modest foreign lifestyle.”