- Ostium Relaunches After $24M Exploit
Ostium reopens trading on July 23 following the $23.75M oracle-price exploit, with recovery plan for liquidity providers advancing
- Ostium Oracle Exploit: $23.75M
Ostium confirms total exploit losses at $23.75M via false oracle price manipulation, announces 24-hour notice before trading restart
- Supra Oracle Exploit Spreads
Reporting reveals Supra patched oracle vulnerabilities on 11 other chains before the $9M Hedera exploit was publicly disclosed
- Ostium $18M Oracle Exploit
Ostium perp DEX loses $18M in oracle private-key compromise, halting trading and extending oracle-attack pattern
- $9M Drained via Hedera Oracle Exploit
Bonzo Lend loses $9M as oracle price-feed manipulation extends exploit wave to Hedera ecosystem
- $6M Lazy Summer Vault Exploit Detailed
Post-mortem reveals Lazy Summer Protocol's $6M vault exploit involved months of attacker preparation
- ETH Leverage Loops and MEV Risks Flagged
Lido stETH leverage loops expose hidden liquidation risk as trader loses $2M in single-block backrun
- Summer Finance $6M Vault Exploit
Summer Finance loses $6M in vault exploit, suspends all protocol vaults
- North Korea Steals $643M in Crypto
North Korea-linked hackers steal $643M in crypto in H1 2026, emerging as a dominant contributor to record losses
- BackedFi Loses $204K in Exploit
BackedFi loses ~$204K in Ethereum exploit, continuing the post-Q2 DeFi attack streak into July
- $121K Exploit Hits AIDC on BSC
AIDC token on BSC loses ~$121K in exploit, adding another BSC incident to the mounting Q2 tally
- Etherlink Bridge Halted After Attack
Etherlink suspends cross-chain bridge operations following an attack attempt
- Q2 2026 Breaks Crypto Hack Records
Q2 2026 is confirmed as the worst quarter on record for crypto hacks by total losses
- DLMC Token Exploited for $222K
DLMC token on BSC suffers $222,600 exploit, extending DeFi attack wave to smaller BSC targets
- THORChain Resumes Trading, Plans Monero Swaps
THORChain returns to trading after $10.7M exploit and unveils Monero swap roadmap
- THORChain Restarts After $10.7M Exploit
THORChain resumes trading following $10.7M exploit and month-long halt
- Taiko Bridge Exploit Costs $1.7M
Taiko Chain's proof-of-state mechanism is compromised, losing $1.7M in bridge exploit
- Stolen MEV Funds Flow to Tornado Cash
Attacker who executed the MEV bot reversal attack on jaredfromsubway.eth transferred a portion of the $7.5M exploit proceeds into Tornado Cash.
- Namada Bridge Drained of 228K ATOM
Namada privacy chain loses 228,000 ATOM via cross-chain bridge exploit
- Axelar Kills Bridge After $4.67M Hack
Axelar disables Secret Network bridge after $4.67M exploit affects IBC-linked assets
- Aztec Hit by Second Exploit in a Week
SlowMist confirmed Aztec suffered a second exploit of approximately $2.1M within less than a week of the first $2.19M exploit, both attributed to deprecated contract vulnerabilities.
- Aztec Network Loses $2.15M to Exploit
Aztec Network suffered a $2.15M exploit with root cause confirmed as a ZK proof–L1 settlement mismatch, consistent with prior warnings about legacy DeFi contract risk.
- AI Accelerates DeFi Exploit Discovery
A new report highlights AI systems actively accelerating the identification of DeFi attack vectors, adding a systematic threat dimension to the isolated exploit incidents reported previously.
- DeFi Hacks Drain $36M+ in Days
Crypto hackers drained over $36 million from protocols using unverified contracts across multiple incidents. A separate governance takeover attack resulted in the minting of 10 billion TOP tokens and the draining of $1.58 million from a Balancer pool. A NovaBox rewards pool was also exploited for 56.73 ETH through a vulnerability in its distribution mechanism.
