CertiK flags $204K lending exploit on Edel Finance after collateral price manipulation
Security monitoring firm CertiK identified a $204,000 exploit on Edel Finance’s decentralized lending market, where an attacker manipulated the valuation of wrapped stock collateral to extract funds from borrowing reserves. The incident highlights how pricing dependencies in tokenized equity lending can be disrupted when internal exchange-rate feeds lack hardened safeguards against flash-loan volatility.
North Korea-Linked Actors Drove 60% of Crypto Theft in 2025
North Korea-linked actors were responsible for roughly $2.06 billion in cryptocurrency theft in 2025, equal to about 60% of all reported losses that year, according to CertiK analysis. The concentration of losses shows state-linked crypto theft becoming a dominant custody and counterparty-risk factor for exchanges, trading desks and institutional treasuries.