The Weekly Grind (Jun 15–Jun 20): $6.75B Stolen, $580M Liquidated, 450M Users at Risk
Crypto chaos: North Korea's $6.75B crypto heist, $580M liquidations, Binance's EU ban looms.
Crypto chaos: North Korea's $6.75B crypto heist, $580M liquidations, Binance's EU ban looms.
World leaders at the Évian G7 summit officially classified DPRK crypto heists as a weapons-financing threat. Seven nations. $6.75 billion stolen. Zero arrests.
April 2026 was the worst month in crypto hack history: 30 attacks, $625M drained, North Korea behind 76% of it. Now a developer is claiming DPRK trained an AI to autonomously exploit DeFi — and the Wasabi Protocol's $5M multi-chain drain may be its latest hit.
DeFi United drops its technical rescue blueprint today, with Consensys, Aave, Compound, the Solana Foundation and 14 other protocols pledging $300M+ in ETH to re-collateralize rsETH after the $292M Lazarus-linked KelpDAO exploit. This is the most coordinated cross-protocol rescue in DeFi history.
Lazarus Group's new 'Mach-O Man' macOS malware is targeting crypto and fintech executives with convincing fake meeting invites, stealing keychain data and wallet credentials before erasing itself completely.
Tether is bailing out Drift Protocol with $148M after North Korea's $285M heist — but the real play is quietly replacing Circle's USDC as Solana DeFi's settlement currency.
Drift Protocol confirmed today that the April 1 exploit wasn't opportunistic — DPRK-linked hackers spent six months attending crypto conferences, building real relationships, and depositing real money before draining $270M.
The Axios supply chain attack dropped a crypto-wallet-stealing RAT on 100M weekly installs. What happened, why AI missed it, and the security roles crypto needs now.