Cryptocurrency pirates stole more than $ 90 million in April, bringing the general reputation of industry for continuous efforts to improve cybersecurity.
The pirates achieved $ 92 million in digital assets out of 15 incidents in April, according to a search report on April 30 from the Cybersecurity Company Blockchain Immunefi.
The total marks an increase of 124% per month compared to March, when the pirates stole $ 41 million.
The biggest hacking of the month on the Open Source UPCX platform represented most of the damage in April, with more than $ 70 million in losses, while Kiloex lost $ 7.5 million as the second hack in April.
The user Kiloex returned the stolen funds only a few days after the attack.
All April’s reported attacks have targeted the decentralized financing platforms (DEFI). Centralized exchanges did not report any incident during the month, noted the report.
IMMUNEFI, which indicates that it helps protect $ 190 billion in user funds, paid more than $ 116 million in bonuses for white hats hacks.
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State -supported threats increase alarms
The report occurs almost two months after Bybit Exchange lost more than $ 1.4 billion on February 21 – the greatest hacking in the history of cryptography.
“The attack scale shows how the actors supported by the State are undoubtedly the most urgent threat to our industry,” according to Mitchell Amador, founder and CEO of immunity.
“This is a reminder of the need for security measures that protect the whole safety battery and help protocols prevent catastrophic attacks before they occur,” Amador told Cointelegraph, adding:
“Protocols must be built for resilience by assuming that attackers will find a means, and investors must assume that even the safest interfaces or emails can be traps.”
He called for protocols to adopt a “zero frust” approach and implement more robust protections all over the technological battery.
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Bog bonuses, regular audits and formal checks will be essential to guarantee the safety of smart contracts and sustained infrastructure, he said.
At the end of April, pirates already stole more than $ 1.7 billion in digital assets in 2025, already exceeding $ 1.49 billion in losses for all 2024, according to Immunefi.
The break from the North Korean group of Lazarus supported by the State in the second half of 2024 could have been a repositioning in preparation for the staging of the largest world hacking on the Parbit, told Cointelegraph Eric Jardine, a chain analysis of the search for cybercrimes.
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