Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. The security firm CertiK published its monthly tally on September 30, 2026, and it reads worse than any month before it this year: crypto platforms and their users lost around $766.4 million in September through exploits and phishing. That is roughly three and a half times the August figure of $215 million, and it is at the same time the month with the highest number of individual incidents in 2026.