North Korea leads global crypto hacks with $2b in 2025
North Korea’s hackers pulled off fewer but larger crypto heists, making up over 60 percent of global thefts, Chainalysis said.
North Korea–linked hacking groups has stolen more cryptocurrency than anyone else in 2025, siphoning off more than $2 billion as their operations became fewer but more targeted and higher impact, according to new research.
North Korean hackers stole about $2.02 billion worth of digital assets from January through early December, up 51 percent from a year earlier, global blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said in a report released this week.
The findings, part of Chainalysis’s annual overview of crypto crime, show…
