We Previously reported on how 2025 has been the biggest year of hacks with a leading antagonist being North Korea using stolen cryptocurrency to further advance it's nuclear missiles program. But there has been a shift and with it some good news.
New reports published indicate that that this December 2025 has delivered good news for the crypto industry. Losses from hacks, exploits and scams have dropped 60% offering early signs that intensified international enforcement, improved compliance and coordinated investigations may finally be having an impact.
According to blockchain security firm PeckShield, total crypto losses in December fell to USD 76 million which is a 60% decline from November’s USD 194.2 million across 26 major incidents. While the month was not without serious events which included a USD 50 million address poisoning scam which we previously reported on also
The December figures bring hope to 2026 and that international law enforcement is working.
Data from Chainalysis paints a grim picture of 2025 with USD 3.4 Billion in crypto funds stolen. A 37% increase over 2024. More than half of that total was attributed to North Korean hacking operations with centralized exchanges (CEX) bearing the brunt of the losses.
February’s ByBit hack alone accounted for over USD 1.4 billion. Making it the largest crypto theft in history. This too was later linked to North Korea’s “TraderTraitor” campaign which targeted multisignature wallets and third party integrations such as email verification.
This news comes as we recently reported that Australia is joining the United States in policing Crypto theft. let's all hope for a better 2026 with the less crypto thefts the higher the token values will rise as there will be a lot less dumping of assets on the market bleeding value.
the world will also be a safer place as North Korea's nuclear weapons programs will hopefully hit a few road bumps and lose their financing.
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