The security firm CertiK published its monthly tally on September 30, 2026, and it reads worse than any month before it this year: crypto platforms and their users lost around $766.4 million in September through exploits and phishing. That is roughly three and a half times the August figure of $215 million, and it is at the same time the month with the highest number of individual incidents in 2026.
For an investor in Europe the sum is at first a number from another world. It gets interesting once you take it apart. The $766 million did not accumulate out of hundreds of small fraud cases but came, to more than 92 percent, from exactly two events. And both of them hit a place where your balance could be sitting too.
