Highlights & Insights from the 2025 Mid-Year Blockchain Security & AML Report by #SlowMist Let’s walk through the key stats, fraud trends, regulatory shifts, and attack insights from H1 2025👇 1️⃣Key stats from H1 2025 121 major security incidents → ~$2.373B in total losses By ecosystem: 🔹Ethereum: $38.59M lost 🔹Solana: $5.8M 🔹BSC: $5.49M By project type: 🔹DeFi: 92 cases, $470M lost (76.03% of all incidents) 🔹Exchanges: 11 cases, $1.883B lost By loss scale: 🔹2 attacks exceeded $100M 🔹Top 10 attacks accounted for $2.018B By root cause: 🔹Account compromise: 42 incidents 🔹Contract vulnerabilities: 35 incidents 📎Full report:
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🔥SlowMist 2025 Mid-year Blockchain Security and AML Report is now available. 🛡️In the first half of 2025, the blockchain industry continued its rapid development—while also facing increasingly complex security threats and regulatory challenges. 📊According to the SlowMist Hacked archive ( 🔹121 major security incidents reported 🔹~$2.373 billion in losses (+65.94% YoY) 🔹APT attacks became more modular and automated 🔹Phishing and social engineering remained rampant 🔹Global AML and stablecoin regulation accelerated From #LazarusGroup to #Drainers, #HuionePay to #TornadoCash — this report offers in-depth analysis of key threats, compliance shifts, and cross-chain laundering tactics. 🔗Read the full report: #BlockchainSecurity #CryptoCompliance #SlowMist #AML #Stablecoins #CyberThreats #APT
3️⃣Crypto regulation matured significantly across regions in H1 2025. Key trends: 🔹Licensing frameworks for exchanges 🔹Stablecoin regulatory frameworks 🔹Stricter AML measures 🔹Restrictions on privacy coins & P2P transfers 🌐Our report covers regulatory developments across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East.
4️⃣Asset recovery & freezing 🧊 @Tether_to froze 209 $ETH addresses (USDT-ERC20) 🧊 @circle froze 44 $ETH addresses (USDC-ERC20) 📊~$1.73B was stolen in those 9 cases, ~$270M was frozen/recovered (11.38% recovery rate) 🛡️With help from InMist Lab’s threat intel, SlowMist assisted in freezing & recovering ~$14.56M in H1 2025.
5️⃣Threat actor & laundering ecosystem insights 😈Lazarus Group: Deployed a highly automated APT chain — from initial access to lateral movement and fund laundering. 🎣Drainers: According to @realScamSniffer , phishing drainers caused ~$39.73M in losses, affecting 43,628 wallets in H1. 💰HuionePay: Identified as a laundering node in many TRON-USDT scam flows. We used @MistTrack_io and on-chain data to build a Dune dashboard analyzing HuionePay’s USDT activity on TRON. 🌪️Mixers: 🔹TornadoCash: 254K $ETH deposited / 248K $ETH withdrawn 🔹eXch: 28K $ETH and 73M ERC20 deposited before being shut down in April
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