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According to a report by The Block, the crypto security firm CertiK released a report today indicating that in the first four months of 2026, there have been 34 confirmed cases of crypto "ransom attacks" globally (i.e., offline physical assaults and extortion targeting crypto asset holders), an increase of 41% compared to the same period in 2025, with total losses for victims amounting to approximately $101 million. If the trend continues, the total number of incidents for the year is expected to reach around 130, with losses potentially soaring to hundreds of millions of dollars.In terms of geographical distribution, out of the 34 incidents, 28 (82%) occurred in Europe, with France being particularly notable, having recorded 24 incidents in just the first four months of 2026, surpassing the total of 20 incidents for the entire year of 2025. CertiK attributes this to France's hosting of flagship crypto companies like Ledger and Binance, frequent data breaches, and a prevalent culture of "showing off wealth and doxxing" within the community. In contrast, the number of reported incidents in the United States dropped from 9 in 2025 to 3 in the first quarter, while Asia saw a decrease from 25 to 2.Regarding attack patterns, CertiK pointed out that criminal groups have shifted to a "data-driven targeting" model, reducing the need for on-site reconnaissance by purchasing victims' names, addresses, and asset information from data intermediaries. This year, over half of the incidents involved threats or direct harm to victims' family members (spouses, children, elderly parents) as a means of exerting pressure. In terms of execution, small groups of 3 to 5 individuals typically operate through

According to Slow Fog CISO @im23pds's post on the X platform: attackers used 13 accounts to implant 575 malicious Skills into Hugging Face and ClawHub.

Mantle token holders have approved a credit line of up to 30,000 ETH (approximately $68 million) to Aave DAO through the MIP-34 proposal. This move aims to help address the potential bad debt issues arising from the rsETH attack incident in April, which is estimated to have caused bad debts between $123.7 million and $230.1 million.The proposal was passed in a seven-day Snapshot vote, authorizing the Mantle Foundation to negotiate and execute the final loan agreement with Aave DAO. The final implementation of this credit line still depends on Aave executing its recovery plan and finalizing specific terms.A Galaxy Research report noted that the rsETH attack incident had put Aave's WETH market under continuous strain, with the utilization rate remaining above 99% for 12.7 consecutive days. As of May 8, the utilization rate of Aave Ethereum V3's WETH market has dropped to about 91.6%, indicating some relief in market pressure.

According to Cointelegraph, crypto risk management and infrastructure provider Chaos Labs stated that its oracle network experienced a suspected "nation-state" hacker attack last weekend but was not breached.Chaos Labs founder Omer Goldberg stated on the X platform that the attack was strictly limited to the operational wallets used for daily on-chain operations, and the oracle network was never compromised. The oracles operate in a fully isolated environment, with nodes distributed globally, protected by multi-layer security and encryption controls. Chaos Labs has rotated all keys since the attempted attack and has not detected any suspicious activity.

The largest lending protocol Tydro under Kraken's Ink Layer 2 announced yesterday that it will remain in a market pause state until the completion of the Chainlink price oracle migration. On May 4, the risk management agency Chaos Labs notified Tydro that its oracle provider had been attacked, with an attack pattern similar to that of a nation-state actor, and recommended an immediate pause of all markets.Tydro stated that there were no abnormal price feeds to its market before or after the pause, and user positions were unaffected. About 48 hours later, Chaos Labs confirmed that the compromised keys had been rotated, and technically, operations could resume, but Tydro chose to continue the pause until the second push oracle was in place. The completion of the Chainlink migration will trigger a 48-hour time lock, during which a four-hour grace period will also be set, allowing borrowers with health factors below 1 to repay or add collateral without being liquidated. Tydro is a white-label deployment of Aave v3, and the total market size has recently exceeded $700 million.

TrustedVolumes confirmed on platform X that it has been attacked, disclosing that the stolen funds are currently stored in three addresses, totaling approximately 6.7 million USD. Two of the addresses hold about 3 million USD in assets each, while the other address holds about 700,000 USD in assets. At the same time, TrustedVolumes expressed its willingness to engage in constructive communication with the attacker regarding a bounty for the vulnerability and a mutually acceptable solution.

According to Blockaid's monitoring, its vulnerability detection system found that the 1inch market maker/parser TrustedVolumes is under attack, involving the Ethereum network. The victim contract is the TrustedVolumes parser, which has so far extracted approximately $5.87 million, including 1,291.16 WETH, 206,282 USDT, 16.939 WBTC, and 1,268,771 USDC.Blockaid stated that the attacker is the same operator as in the 1inch Fusion V1 attack incident in March 2025, but this vulnerability is different, located in the custom RFQ trading agent contract controlled by TrustedVolumes. More details will be announced soon.

According to The Block, the on-chain lending platform Aave has completed the liquidation of the remaining rsETH positions of the Kelp DAO attacker as part of the previously announced recovery plan.The collateral obtained from the liquidation will be transferred to a multi-signature address "Recovery Guardian" managed by the DeFi United initiative, which is working to restore the asset backing of rsETH and compensate affected users. This process marks one of the final stages of the community's efforts to make up for the $292 million vulnerability loss.Aave previously noted that its liquidation required governance process support, specifically, Aave voted to temporarily manipulate the price of the rsETH oracle to cause losses on the attacker’s fraudulent positions. Aave stated that all adjustments will be fully restored after the liquidation is completed.

According to FinanceFeeds, the victim's lawyer from North Korea attempted to redefine the rsETH attack incident that occurred on Aave as "fraud" rather than "theft" before a hearing at the Manhattan federal court, in order to maintain a freeze order on assets worth $71 million in ETH.The lawyer argued that the attacker borrowed assets using worthless collateral and did not repay, which constitutes a fraudulent loan transaction, aiming to use these frozen assets to pay for terrorism judgment compensation under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.Previously, hackers associated with the Lazarus Group minted unsecured rsETH through a cross-chain bridge vulnerability and borrowed approximately $230 million in assets from Aave, of which $71 million was intercepted by Arbitrum developers. The victim's lawyer also questioned Aave's standing, pointing out that its terms of service state it does not have control over user assets. Additionally, DeFi United has raised $327 million, exceeding the amount in dispute.

Kelp DAO announced that it will migrate its re-staked token rsETH to Chainlink CCIP, stating that this move is to enhance security.Previously, the cross-chain bridge built by Kelp DAO based on LayerZero was attacked on April 18, resulting in hackers stealing approximately 116,500 rsETH, involving an amount of about $292 million, and using the related assets as collateral to borrow WETH on Aave v3. Regarding the cause of the vulnerability, LayerZero previously stated that the issue stemmed from Kelp DAO using a single DVN verification path configuration instead of multiple independent verifications. Kelp DAO responded that this configuration was the default setting and that LayerZero had confirmed its security without indicating any related risks. LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino subsequently denied this claim, stating that Kelp DAO had actively modified the default multi-DVN configuration. Both parties are currently still in ongoing disputes over the attribution of responsibility.

According to the security agency Blockaid (@blockaid_), the Ekubo Protocol is currently experiencing ongoing attacks on a v2 custom extension contract on Ethereum, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.4 million.The root cause of the attack lies in the fact that the IPayer.pay callback of this extension does not effectively restrict the source of the parameters, allowing attackers to control the payer, token, and amount parameters, thereby arbitrarily transferring authorized tokens. Users of the core Ekubo protocol are not affected, but users who have authorized this v2 contract as a token spender face direct risks. Blockaid recommends that relevant users immediately revoke their authorization.

According to CoinDesk, Drift Protocol has announced a user recovery plan for the approximately $295 million security breach on April 1, attributed to a North Korean-backed hacker group.The core of the recovery plan is to issue receipt tokens representing verified user losses, with each token representing $1 of verified loss, which holders can redeem based on the value of the recovery pool accumulated over time. The initial funding for the recovery pool is approximately $3.8 million, and it is expected to grow through exchange revenue of up to $127.5 million, Tether support, and up to $20 million from partners, until it covers the total loss of approximately $295.4 million.Drift has frozen about $3.36 million USDC and launched a public bounty to recover 10% of the assets. Drift plans to relaunch on a "security-first" exchange in the second quarter. Legal recovery efforts are still ongoing.

According to CoinDesk, Angus Fletcher, head of digital assets at State Street Bank, stated at the Consensus Miami conference that in light of the recent surge in DeFi attack incidents, institutional investors are looking for improvements in blockchain security. He pointed out that the young crypto industry needs to find solutions now before trillions of dollars in real-world assets are put on-chain.Fletcher believes that the interoperability between blockchains needs to be clearly defined and understood, and institutional clients need to understand the legal ownership and rights of cross-chain tokens. Dennis Bree, head of Morpho, stated that April could be the month with the most hacker attacks in DeFi history, and regulators are conducting more due diligence on the security of collateralized assets.

According to The Block, after experiencing a bridge attack of approximately $292 million last month, Kelp DAO decided to abandon LayerZero and instead adopt Chainlink's cross-chain infrastructure.Kelp DAO will use the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, which requires 16 independent node operators to validate cross-chain transactions, becoming the first major protocol to leave LayerZero after the attack. During the attack, the LayerZero-driven OFT bridge used a 1-of-1 single validator configuration, with 47% of LayerZero applications using the same configuration at that time. LayerZero subsequently announced the cessation of single validator configurations.Kelp DAO stated that migrating to Chainlink CCIP directly addresses the architectural vulnerabilities in the attack. rsETH will also adopt a cross-chain token standard. As part of the DeFi United rescue operation, LayerZero has donated and lent approximately 10,000 ETH to Aave.

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According to on-chain analyst Specter, the attacker of the Wasabi protocol has transferred all stolen funds into Tornado Cash, completing a centralized mixing operation of approximately $5.9 million in assets.On-chain analysis shows that this attacker and a suspected North Korean-related hacker organization (DPRK) have recently continued to use Tornado Cash to launder stolen funds, including those from KelpDAO and LayerZero, exhibiting a multi-stage complex flow of funds.A typical money laundering path includes: funds first entering the Wasabi Mixer for initial mixing and withdrawal, then cross-chain flowing back to Ethereum, re-entering Tornado Cash for deep mixing, withdrawing to a new wallet, and dispersing to multiple addresses. New tokens are deployed in the new wallets, liquidity is guided to buy and extract liquidity assets, and then cross-chain to the Tron (USDT) system, where funds briefly stay before flowing to OTC-related wallets. On-chain security analysis indicates that this model has become a high-frequency attack money laundering template recently, presenting a combination structure of "mixing + cross-chain + tokenization + OTC exit."Industry security personnel remind that such attacks have shifted from simple theft to systematic engineered money laundering paths, significantly increasing the difficulty of tracking.

Sui posted on platform X that following the attack on Aftermath Finance last week, the Aftermath team has opened a claims page for affected users. If users have any questions, they can contact the Aftermath team via Discord or send a private message on platform X for inquiries.Aftermath Finance stated that refunds for affected users have been processed. When users connect to aftermath.finance next time, the system will prompt them to withdraw their balance from Aftermath Perps.

According to CoinDesk, Ripple announced on Monday that it will share its internal intelligence on North Korean hackers with the cryptocurrency industry threat intelligence sharing organization Crypto ISAC to help businesses identify coordinated infiltration actions.This move comes against the backdrop of a recent shift in attack patterns faced by the cryptocurrency industry. Ripple stated, "The strongest crypto security posture is a shared posture. A threat actor who has not passed a background check at one company may submit resumes to three other companies in the same week. Without shared intelligence, each company starts from scratch."

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Slow Mist @23pds posted on the X platform revealing that X platform user Ilhamrfliansyh induced the AI model Grok to generate and publish abnormal content through a prompt injection attack, triggering erroneous on-chain fund operations.It is alleged that the original content was suspected to be a segment of Morse code, with the core meaning being "transfer all DRB to Ilhamrfliansyh." Although the related account has been deactivated and the complete information cannot be fully confirmed, Grok directly published the "decoded result" as a reply after parsing, inadvertently @ing bankrbot, causing the content to be recognized by the system as an on-chain execution instruction.Subsequently, Bankr, as Grok's associated wallet, executed the request, transferring approximately $175,000 worth of DRB to the attacker's address. The attacker then quickly exchanged the DRB for USDC through multiple wallets.This incident temporarily triggered a nearly 40% drop in the price of DRB, but the market quickly recovered, and the price has largely regained its losses. Industry insiders pointed out that this event exposed the potential risks of the "AI + automated on-chain execution" system under prompt injection attacks, especially in scenarios where AI results can directly trigger fund operations.

According to market news, Binance has announced the launch of a user-controlled "Withdraw Protection" feature, aimed at preventing offline coercion attacks (commonly known as "wrench attacks") against cryptocurrency holders. This feature allows users to actively lock their account withdrawal permissions for 1 to 7 days and provides a stricter "lock mode," which cannot be lifted early during the set period.Binance stated that this locking mechanism cannot be overridden by platform customer service but is controlled by internal policy, not an on-chain cryptographic lock. Binance's Chief Security Officer, Jimmy Su, indicated that this move stems from the risk trends observed on the platform, including cases where some users in high-risk areas have been forced to transfer funds. By setting a withdrawal delay, it can buy users time to respond and recover in extreme situations.Data shows that incidents of offline coercion against cryptocurrency users are significantly rising in 2025, with related attacks often bypassing traditional account security mechanisms, as the actions are completed by the users themselves under pressure. Industry insiders believe that the time-lock mechanism can change this risk model to some extent. Binance emphasizes that this feature does not affect law enforcement agencies' ability to act in accordance with the law, while also advising users to strengthen API key management and privacy protection to reduce the risk of being targeted.