Huobi HTX Releases Security Report for the First Half of 2025: Multi-Dimensional Protection System Builds Industry Security Barriers

In the first half of 2025, the crypto industry was once again alarmed by frequent security incidents. On February 21, Bybit, a global trading platform, suffered a major hack that lost more than $1.4 billion, making it the largest single theft in history. The emergence of the "Lazarus" group behind the incident has once again exposed the deep problems of the current industry in terms of attack vector evolution, system vulnerability and cross-platform response mechanism.

In this context, Huobi As the world's leading crypto asset service platform, HTX continues to increase its investment in security. By building three security systems of risk control, operation and public opinion, and comprehensively strengthening the three-dimensional protection of account, transaction and capital information, we will effectively block multiple risk events in the first half of 2025 and protect the safety of user assets.

Industry security landscape: Frequent attacks and technical complexity

In the first half of 2025, hacker attacks and scams will occur frequently in the crypto market, and on-chain malicious behaviors will evolve from "simple phishing" to "combined attacks": including social engineering, malicious contract deployment, UI forgery, deep camouflage, etc., using the gaps between platform security systems to infiltrate. Cases such as the Bybit hack and the theft of multiple protocols on the Solana chain have revealed the high degree of specialization and automation of attackers' methods.

At the same time, the regulatory environment is constantly changing. A number of countries have successively introduced compliance regulations for virtual asset service providers, requiring platforms to meet standards in anti-money laundering, account protection, risk control audits, etc., and promote the industry as a whole to move closer to "high standards of security compliance".

Mainstream security technologies are also improving, such as on-chain transaction traceability systemsAI risk control engines and automated contract audits have gradually become standard tools on the platform, effectively improving the ability to identify and respond to unknown risks.

Semi-annual data inventory: black address interception, fraud tracking, and user protection have been comprehensively improved

In the first half of 2025, Huobi HTX has delivered outstanding results in terms of account security, transaction security, and fund security.

In terms of account security, more than 2.01 million security reminders were sent to users, including 1.809 million emails and 206,000 text messages, effectively improving users' security awareness. Successfully cracked down on 127 fake app download pages and phishing websites to prevent users from falling into traps.

In terms of transaction security, 15 withdrawals to fraudulent addresses were intercepted, and a total of 104,847 USDT of users' losses were recovered. Received reports from users and cooperation channels and handled 68 cases of external stolen asset inflow, and helped freeze 1,429,787 USDT of stolen funds.

In terms of fund security, 20,871 blacklisted addresses were added, and 47 deposit operations involving blacklisted addresses were blocked to prevent illegal funds from invading the platform, involving an amount of up to 1,449,467 USDT.

Among them, Huobi HTX's security data in June showed that Huobi HTX continued to increase its security protection: intercepting 5 fraudulent withdrawals and helping external users freeze stolen assets of more than $400,000; 2,769 new black addresses were added every month, and the amount of intercepted was 21,239 USDT. Cracked down on 41 new phishing links and fake platform websites.

Achievements in security construction: new systems, new technologies, new concepts, and multi-dimensional collaborative protection

In order to achieve all-round protection of user assets and platform operation, Huobi In the first half of 2025, HTX will carry out a number of upgrades and technical reconstructions of the security system, and build a security system covering three major security systems: risk control, operation, and public opinion:

Risk control system: The self-developed millisecond-level real-time risk control rule engine and all-round monitoring and alarm system cover the platform business chain. The key behavior points of users are filtered in real time, which greatly reduces the risks of account theft, money laundering, malicious transactions and other risks.

Operation system: Set up a 24×7 customer service and security operation response team to respond to and handle various risk alarms and security incidents in a timely manner to ensure efficient and closed-loop risk disposal.

Public opinion system: By maintaining close communication and cooperation with leading security companies, project parties, and exchanges in the industry, a "joint prevention and control mechanism" is established to achieve rapid perception and synchronous response to industry security incidents, and enhance the ability of hacker tracking and cross-platform investigation.

Based on the above all-round security system, Huobi In terms of account security, HTX's platform combines multiple verification, behavior identification, dynamic risk level management, and joint security agencies to remove fake pages and other means to continuously reduce the probability of users being recruited. In terms of fund security, Huobi HTX has built a million-level black address database, an anti-money laundering information database in cooperation with authoritative organizations, and combined with an on-chain tracking system and risk model, to accurately identify abnormal fund flows and prevent the inflow of suspicious assets and the loss of user funds. In terms of information security, the platform implements a financial-level information security system and a strict internal control system to ensure the security of user information and prevent the leakage or abuse of user data.

In addition, Huobi HTX has fully upgraded the PoR data storage system to TiDB storage mode, further improving system stability and processing efficiency, while effectively reducing O&M costs. According to the data, in the first half of 2025, Huobi HTX's overall asset sinking data increased significantly, the core asset reserves continued to rise, and stablecoins such as USDT and ETH maintained a net increase trend with mainstream currencies for several months, and users' trust in the platform continued to increase.

Towards a safer future: Build an industry security ecosystem to enhance trust and resilience

Future, HuobiHTX will continue to increase security construction. As Huobi HTX technical experts said, "From 2024 we have witnessed serious challenges to the security defenses of the cryptocurrency industry, and the Bybit incident once again alerted the entire industry at a cost of $1.44 billion – the spearhead of hackers has shifted from technical vulnerabilities to human weaknesses." In 2025, we strengthened the deep integration of zero trust architecture and behavior analysis, and achieved three core upgrades: dynamic permission verification, full-link transaction verification, and normalization of red-blue confrontation. It lays a solid foundation for promoting the construction of a security ecology in the confidential currency industry and the protection of users' assets. ”

• Dynamic verification of authority: environmental label + biometric double authentication is required for capital operation to ensure the consistency of the operator and the operating environment;
• Full-link transaction authenticity: Based on the transaction content comparison mechanism at the smart contract level, the front-end is fundamentally eliminated Transaction spoofing after the UI has been tampered with;
• Normalization of red-blue confrontation: The security team simulates and reproduces hacker groups on a monthly basis The latest attack methods of the APT organization are to promote defense and strengthen the platform's resilience.

Huobi HTX firmly believes that only by actively building a "multi-dimensional integration" security in-depth system and an open and win-win security ecosystem can we provide a truly solid foundation of trust for tens of millions of users around the world. "In the future, Huobi HTX will continue to spare no effort to invest in the construction of security infrastructure, work with the industry to deal with increasingly complex security threats, and lead the industry to develop in a more transparent, healthier and more sustainable direction.