Is hacking the new game now?

[greysonz]

I have thought of where to make this post but didn't know the right section to post it. Although, I know that if there is a better place to make you could direct me to move it there.
Back to my question, this year has seems to be the worst year for the crypto space, Duelbits hack, Binance hack, many more hacks that happened on the space. My question is: does it mean that no one can outsmart those hacker?
Why is it that their major targets was on well know sites?
Does it mean that no one can develop a stronger security measures to outsmart those hackers or does it mean that most of the hacks that is happening are from Insider? Or maybe someone who is already in the system are leaking out their information to hacker ?

Again, how do you trust the people that are being employed to work with most of the exchange or gambling site?
What are the strategies to ensure that the staff they are hiring is trusted and can not compromised their duties or works, because it's always said that only those who are Inside that can know the way about the system.

I would want to know, and your response will means a lot to me.

What makes everything more complicated is the fact that, as a rule, the hackers are part of the Lazarus Group, which is based in North Korea, and no one can get to them, because it’s impossible to go to that country and hold them accountable. And this creates such a barrier that the only way to punish them is by using their own methods - through the internet, not through physical detention. Even though there were many photos of these guys on the internet, this still doesn’t give us any advantage in apprehending them, because they’re in a completely closed state, and in fact, this is their work for its state apparatus.
Plus, I wouldn’t say they’re particularly strong in programming, because I’ve read articles stating that North Korean hackers aren’t all that impressive; it’s just that they skillfully use AI and social engineering.

[stepwilli]

Well, no system that has great security can escape hacks. If you look at people, they are the most vulnerable when it comes to system security. But that won't eliminate the fact that no system is totally secured. I believe we should remove our minds to building a secured system, which is necessary. But our attention should shift towards how to manage the breach if it occurs. Since we know we can't stop breaches or create a system that is totally secured, we should shift focus to managing it well if it does come.

Why would you say that breaches can't be stopped? They can be stopped if security teams take things more seriously and work on their systems more thoroughly leaving no rooms for mistakes and no vulnerabilities for hackers to exploit. Hackers can't get into systems if they don't find any ways to do that, they can only hack into systems if they find weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and all the hacks in the history have happened because of the same reasons. The coldcard incident happened because of a vulnerability, the recent Binance hack happened because of the carelessness of their engineer, and the same thing has happened with other platforms in the past as well.

So, it is not that vulnerabilities cannot be stopped, but it is just that most of the time, security isn't as perfect as it should be, and that is the reason why such things happen. However, you are right that their should also be ways for every platform and system to handle breaches in case they happen, but their first priority should be to look into their systems for any bugs, glitches, and vulnerabilities and remove them before evil actors notice them and then misuse them. If hackers can find vulnerabilities in a system, then why can't the developers and security team find them before the hackers?

[Oshio-man]

I don't think hackers are actually much smarter than the security teams of various sites because if the security team was weak then such hacking incidents would have happened regularly.

Some people who don't know how strong their crypto wallet team are will think scammers are very wise in gaining access to investors wallets because there is a way you will make your security strong, it will be difficult for those hacker to be happy because whenever they have access to anyone wallet it make the scammers to celebrate and to make the owner of the wallet feel sad, but when you crate a strong wallet and keep your seeds phrase safe, it will make your bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in your wallet secure for long term before you can decide to sell or to continue holding for more income to come.

[hafiztalha]

I mean it was already the game from the very start actually, I guess the technology was also getting better when it comes to hacking probably because of AI?

It was also a question in my head, since we are getting to the tech era, we might see a uptrend on tech in the coming years so meaning something that was not able to calculate in the past years, is going to be easy to be calculate in the future, just like what happened in the past, since old computers can barely do anything and memory were just too low compared today.

Does it mean that the future computers or lets say hackers have a better chance of hacking? so something like a Bitcoin network could be crack in the future? if that could happened it seems like a huge problem. Unless the tech was also updating.

Technology never stops on any level; it always keeps updating. Just because of this, things always have good developments. Now AI is also having updates, which are bringing serious troubles for people, especially in crypto, because exploiting flaws in security systems needs good changes, but its not easy.
Hackers can be controlled but its needs good work with devs needs to bring things which end flaws and give some extra level right now its not easy but its going to be have enough changes few analyst already give early warnings about few things but sadly no one take them seriously but now recent huge loses having some precaustious because without doing solid changes its not going to be good.

[Ronsbit]

Hack can take place at any time as we never can tell what these guys have in mind and their next plan and line of action. The only remedy to such unexpected attacks is to stay updated and upgraded at intervals.
Although it is true that insider information also help to get them access to loopholes that could exploit platforms but all these rest of who is being employed or contracted to run such at that moment. Is the person reliable and trustworthy to protect whatever information they get from the platform they manage themselves. But I believe before any staff that id employed to such sensitive office would either be from recommendations or a thorough investigation would be carried out before they are given the job to execute because their office holds protection to the exchange or platform community crypto assets.

[Sunshine1525]

Hack can take place at any time as we never can tell what these guys have in mind and their next plan and line of action. The only remedy to such unexpected attacks is to stay updated and upgraded at intervals.
Although it is true that insider information also help to get them access to loopholes that could exploit platforms but all these rest of who is being employed or contracted to run such at that moment. Is the person reliable and trustworthy to protect whatever information they get from the platform they manage themselves. But I believe before any staff that id employed to such sensitive office would either be from recommendations or a thorough investigation would be carried out before they are given the job to execute because their office holds protection to the exchange or platform community crypto assets.

That's how it should be, a thief would never announce their time of robbery to who they want to rob and that's it's good to be always secured against potential robbery by fencing and installing burglary proofs including other good security measures, and it also applies to every crypto platform.

If you notice, the devs of Bitcoin always update the security of the network to avoid being penetrated by hackers if devs of those platforms can do same and avoid every loopholes that make them vulnerable to hackers. As for what you said about their staff, you made a very good point.

[NefiSwap]

On the insider part of your question, there's a well documented case. In May 2025 Coinbase disclosed that criminals had bribed contractors in its overseas customer support to pull customer data (names, addresses, phone numbers, ID images, balance info) for under 1% of monthly users. The attackers then asked Coinbase for a $20 million ransom, which it refused. All it took was paying a few people who had access.
For users the practical effect is that leaked data turns into very convincing fake support calls, because the caller already knows your balance and address. Real exchange support won't phone you and ask you to move coins to a "safe wallet", so if you get a call like that, hang up and open a ticket yourself.

[Ronsbit]

Hack can take place at any time as we never can tell what these guys have in mind and their next plan and line of action. The only remedy to such unexpected attacks is to stay updated and upgraded at intervals.
Although it is true that insider information also help to get them access to loopholes that could exploit platforms but all these rest of who is being employed or contracted to run such at that moment. Is the person reliable and trustworthy to protect whatever information they get from the platform they manage themselves. But I believe before any staff that id employed to such sensitive office would either be from recommendations or a thorough investigation would be carried out before they are given the job to execute because their office holds protection to the exchange or platform community crypto assets.

That's how it should be, a thief would never announce their time of robbery to who they want to rob and that's it's good to be always secured against potential robbery by fencing and installing burglary proofs including other good security measures, and it also applies to every crypto platform.

If you notice, the devs of Bitcoin always update the security of the network to avoid being penetrated by hackers if devs of those platforms can do same and avoid every loopholes that make them vulnerable to hackers. As for what you said about their staff, you made a very good point.

Constant update and upgrade is highly recommended because it reduces the possibility of  sudden attacks from hacker's in platforms to that is why they are constantly updating the Bitcoin core ledger and that is why it is very difficult to penetrate the Bitcoin chain otherwise hackers could have long done that to have access to Bitcoin via Bitcoin blockchain ledger.
With regards to staff, what I had said earlier  is just what is obtainable in every organisation most especially important office position that are very sensitive and of great importance to the organisation.