{"id":542891,"date":"2026-01-17T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=784282"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:10:53","slug":"crypto-fraud-hits-15-8b-in-2025-far-outpacing-losses-from-hacks-and-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/crypto-fraud-hits-15-8b-in-2025-far-outpacing-losses-from-hacks-and-exploits\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Fraud Hits $15.8B in 2025, Far Outpacing Losses from Hacks and Exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/shutterstock_2629394493-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Crypto Fraud Hits $15.8B in 2025, Far Outpacing Losses From Hacks and Exploits\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>In 2025, Web3 fraud surged to $15.87 billion, far surpassing the $2.5 billion plus lost to traditional hacks. Unlike isolated breaches, losses were spread across millions of transactions, reflecting the rise of \u201cindustrialized\u201d crime networks that use address clusters and cross\u2011platform flows. Sophisticated Networks and \u2018Authorized\u2019 Fraud In 2025, the Web3 security landscape shifted dramatically. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, Web3 fraud surged to $15.87 billion, far surpassing the $2.5 billion plus lost to traditional hacks. Unlike isolated breaches, losses were spread across millions of transactions, reflecting the rise of \u201cindustrialized\u201d crime networks that use address clusters and cross\u2011platform flows. Sophisticated Networks and \u2018Authorized\u2019 Fraud In 2025, the Web3 security landscape shifted dramatically. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":542892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-542891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}