Crypto survived cybersecurity awareness month… just

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By Dextape Desk · November 3, 2026

Protos reports that October 2026, which coincided with Cybersecurity Awareness Month, produced a long run of crypto security breaches. Blockchain security firm PeckShield counted 56 major hacks across the sector that month, with total losses of about $6.48 billion, a steep jump from September. The bulk came from an attack on Binance worth roughly $6.3 billion, about $3 billion of which was frozen on-chain. The FBI has attributed that attack to the North Korea-affiliated group TraderTraitor, while North Korea denies involvement. Binance described a campaign that began in June with a tampered copy of a package manager and later involved a staged job-interview task carrying malicious code. Separately, Ledger users who bought spyware-implanted devices through a reseller lost about $90 million.

Why it matters: The scale of losses across the sector shows how exposed exchanges, wallets and their users remain to sophisticated attacks, a risk that matters to anyone holding crypto assets.

Mentioned: Binance

Summary by Dextape, based on reporting by Protos. Written with AI from the publisher’s text and checked automatically for copied wording and unsupported figures. Not investment advice.