In brief
- North Korea stole 76% of all crypto hack value so far in 2026 with just two April attacks totaling $577 million.
- One hack used months of social engineering; the other exploited a single-point verification flaw in a blockchain bridge.
- All told, TRM Labs says that North Korean hackers have stolen more than $6 billion worth of crypto since 2017.
North Korean hackers have stolen nearly three-quarters of all cryptocurrency taken by cybercriminals so far this year—not through a relentless campaign of attacks, but through two precisely executed heists targeting decentralized finance platforms in April, according to a new report from blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs.
The two incidents—a $285 million breach of Drift Protocol on…
