Data: The average loss from a single attack in the cryptocurrency industry is approximately $24.5 million, with major incidents dominating the total industry losses

According to the on-chain security report released by Immunefi, there were a total of 191 publicly disclosed attack incidents from 2024 to 2025, with total losses reaching $4.67 billion and cumulative losses over five years amounting to $11.9 billion, involving 425 attacks. In 2024, 94 attacks were recorded, while 97 occurred in 2025, with an overall frequency tending to stabilize.

The median loss per attack decreased from the previous $4.5 million to about $2.2 million, but the average loss still reached approximately $24.5 million. The five largest incidents between 2024 and 2025 accounted for 62% of the total stolen funds, while the top ten accounted for 73%. Among them, the $1.5 billion attack on Bybit accounted for 44% of all losses in 2025 and 32% of the total losses over the two years. Although centralized exchanges were involved in only 20 of the 191 incidents, they bore more than half of the total losses, amounting to $2.55 billion. The tokens of the attacked projects averaged a decline of about 10% within two days of the incident, and the median decline reached 61% six months later, with approximately 84% of the affected tokens still below pre-attack levels after six months.