Blockchain intelligence company report: In the first half of 2025, losses from encryption attacks reached $2.1 billion, with infrastructure vulnerabilities as the main cause.

Gate News bot message, according to Cointelegraph, blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs has released a new report showing that losses from crypto asset attacks could reach as high as $2.1 billion in the first half of 2025. Most of the losses stem from infrastructure vulnerabilities such as encryption private key leaks and front-end intrusions.

The report indicates that among the 75 cryptocurrency hacking incidents that have occurred this year, over 80% of the stolen funds came from infrastructure attacks. These types of attacks cause an average of 10 times more financial loss than other types of attacks.

Infrastructure attacks mainly target the technical core of systems, aiming to illegally gain control, mislead users, or redirect assets. Common methods include hijacking the mnemonic phrases of private keys for crypto wallets and exploiting vulnerabilities in the user interface of encryption protocols.