BlockThreat - Week 27, 2026

$1.2M stolen across 3 incidents. A peaceful week with new intel on DPRK backdoors, social engineering tactics, and security research.

BlockThreat - Week 26, 2026

$7.2M stolen across 14 incidents. Signature Verification bugs on the rise.

BlockThreat - Week 25, 2026

$20M stolen across 13 incidents. Jared Got Sandwiched. DPRK is back at it.

BlockThreat - Week 24, 2026

$42.4M stolen across 15 incidents as attackers return to old code, exposed keys and deprecated protocols still holding value.

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BlockThreat - May, 2026

Two attack vectors drove the biggest losses. The next major exploit may not start with a stolen key.

BlockThreat - Week 23, 2026

$3.6M stolen across 14 incidents and a reminder that even the hardest bugs are no longer staying buried for long.

BlockThreat - Week 22, 2026

$19M stolen across 14 incidents. It’s always darkest before the dawn.

BlockThreat - Week 21, 2026

Another bloody week with 11 incidents and $7.7M stolen. Three attack vectors auditors should be hunting and defenders managing before attackers do.

BlockThreat - April, 2026

Bloody April, exploited trust, and the Breaking Point of Ethical Security Research

BlockThreat - Week 20, 2026

$29M stolen across 13 incidents, multiple supply chain compromises, and three bridge hacks in a single week show what happens when attacker incentives keep rising while defensives fall behind.

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BlockThreat - Week 19, 2026

$8.8M stolen across 13 incidents. The biggest warning signs were not the hacks, but two emerging threat signals pointing toward the next $100M+ incident.

BlockThreat - Week 18, 2026

$15M stolen across 16 incidents as exploit volume keeps accelerating.

BlockThreat - Week 17, 2026

Litecoin and the anatomy of a botched patch, multiple private key compromises, a surprise spike in oracle misconfiguration and signature validation exploits, latest in phishing and supply chain attacks, security research and tooling.

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BlockThreat - Week 16, 2026

KelpDAO suffers the biggest hack of the year, Hyperbridge gets caught by its own joke. 17 incidents, $329M in losses, and many harsh lessons for bridges, node operators, and DeFi teams still relying on broken trust models.

BlockThreat - Week 15, 2026

Only a few minor DeFi incidents this week. A rare chance for defenders to sharpen the saw and focus on the threats brewing in the background.

BlockThreat - Week 14, 2026

DPRK plays the long game, multiple supply chain attacks, DNS hijackings, DeFi hacker arrested, money printing vulnerabilities patched

BlockThreat - Q1, 2026

Lessons and attack patterns shaping blockchain security

BlockThreat - Week 13, 2026

Someone is wreaking havoc across the supply chain, low liquidity governance is under attack, and too many teams still lack basic security discipline.

BlockThreat - Week 12, 2026

Web2 threats are spilling into Web3 once again. Secondary effects are often worse than the hack itself, single points of failure, hard coded values, and other design mistakes turn one hack into many.

BlockThreat - Week 11, 2026

Defenses that become liabilities, patient attackers beating onchain monitoring, attackers vs. audit scopes, comparing top AI auditing tools and more

BlockThreat - Week 10, 2026

Battle tested code keeps on getting hacked, bug hunting is accelerating. The edge now belongs to teams that use AI defensively to prevent vulnerabilities, not just find them later.

BlockThreat - February, 2026

AI is accelerating both defenders and attackers, surfacing rare bugs and amplifying the cost of simple mistakes, with clear action items for teams.