Crypto hacks caused $127.06 million in losses in September 2025, according to blockchain security firm 3 figure marks a 22% decrease from August’s $163 million, though nearly 20 major exploits were still recorded across the 4 Decline but Remain High as UXLINK and SwissBorg Hacks Dominate September PeckShield shared its findings in a post on X, noting the continued risk of large-scale attacks on decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain 5 the drop from August’s total shows some decline in criminal activity, the overall figure demonstrates that hacks remain a significant challenge for the industry. #PeckShieldAlert September 2025 saw ~20 major crypto exploits, resulting in total losses of $127.06M.
This marks a -22% decrease from August's $163M. In a positive development, ~$13M drained from a Venus user in a #phishing attack has been 6 5 Hacks: #UXLINK –… 7 — PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) October 2, 2025 The data shows that September’s total was heavily concentrated in a handful of major incidents, with UXLINK and SwissBorg alone accounting for nearly two-thirds of the losses. UXLINK, a blockchain-based social networking platform, suffered the month’s largest attack, losing $44.14 8 the attack, where the hacker exploited its multisig wallet to mint nearly 10 trillion unauthorized tokens, UXLINK saw its token crash over 90%. UXLINK was hacked!
The hacker received 490M $UXLINK and also minted 2B $UXLINK. The hacker has sold a massive $UXLINK on DEXes through six wallets, obtaining 6,732 $ETH ($28.1M). He also sold a large amount of $UXLINK on CEXes. Address:… 9 — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 23, 2025 The attacker funneled assets to exchanges, though UXLINK said many deposits were frozen with exchange support and law enforcement 10 firms PeckShield and Hacken revealed the hacker kept minting tokens, ultimately swapping about 9.95 trillion for just 16 ETH, approximately $67K.
In response, UXLINK urged exchanges to suspend trading, announced a token swap plan, and noted the attacker ironically lost 500B tokens in a phishing scam during the exploit. meanwhile, SwissBorg, a well-known wealth management app in the crypto space, was hit with $41.5 million in 11 attack came after hackers breached partner API provider Kiln, draining about 192,600 SOL from its Earn 12 under 1% of users, the platform pledged treasury funds for compensation, engaged white-hat hackers, and stressed that operations remain 13 hit by $41.5M $SOL hack after API compromise amid cascade of crypto security failures, including Nemo and Aqua exploits. #CryptoHack #Solana 0 — 14 (@cryptonews) September 8, 2025 Alongside the two major ones, a phishing attack on a user of Venus resulted in $13.5 million in stolen 15 reported that about $13 million of that amount has been successfully recovered, making it one of the few cases where stolen funds were returned to victims. @VenusProtocol recovers $27M from exploiter through force-liquidation, sparking decentralization debate over governance intervention. #BNB #Hack 1 — 16 (@cryptonews) September 3, 2025 Additional September incidents included Yala, which lost $7.64 million, and GriffAI, which suffered a $3 million 17 exploits impacted Nono, Shibarium Bridge, Basset, New Gold Protocol, and SolidifyFund, each losing between $1 million and $2.4 18 also traced the movement of stolen funds, identifying transfers of hundreds of Ether across 19 flows ranged from 443 ETH to 800 20 remains unclear whether these assets were funneled into mixers or other laundering 21 Crypto Hacks Hit $154M, Keeping 2025 on Track for Record-Breaking Losses September’s figures continue a trend of high-value thefts in 2025, although the decrease from August provides some short-term 22 losses put September slightly below August’s $163 million total but higher than July’s $142 million , showing no clear downtrend in exploit 23 broadly, the first half of 2025 saw billions drained from protocols, with Chainalysis estimating $2.17 billion stolen between January and June, while CertiK placed the number even higher at $2.47 24 of that figure was skewed by February’s massive Bybit hack , which alone accounted for around $1.5 billion in stolen 25 saw a surge in crypto-related scams, with a staggering $310 million lost to various exploits, making it the second-highest monthly total this year. #Scam #Hack 2 — 26 (@cryptonews) September 2, 2024 Comparisons with past years reveal the scale of the 27 mid-year totals in 2025 already surpassed the $2.2 billion stolen across all of 2024, putting this year on track to be one of the worst in crypto’s history for security 28 three months still left in the year, analysts warn that unless industry-wide defenses improve, 2025 could end up eclipsing prior records set during the peak of 2022’s DeFi exploits.
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