CertiK Report: Wrench Attack Losses Skyrocketed by Nearly 12 Times, and Operational Safety Becomes the New Core of Prevention

Comparing news, Web3 security company CertiK released the “2026 First Half Wrench Attack Report”. According to the report, a total of 52 publicly verified wrench attacks were recorded globally in the first half of 2026, an increase of 33.3% over the previous year; related losses reached about US$124 million, an increase of about 11.8 times over the same period last year.

According to the report, attackers are shifting from exploiting technical exploits to attacks targeting asset holders and their real-world networks. The number of house robberies increased from 1 in the first half of 2025 to 20, accounting for 41% of the total number of incidents during the same period. Europe is the region with a high incidence of attacks, with 33 cases in France, accounting for 63.5% of global cases.

CertiK said that as real-world risks become an important challenge to digital asset security, businesses and high-value individuals need to establish more comprehensive protection systems. CertiK has launched an operational security service to help identify information exposure risks such as identity, family, residence, and itinerary trajectory; at the same time, it supports organizations to track and analyze cybercrime activities by linking off-chain intelligence, on-chain transactions, and AML risk signals through CertiK Security Workspace. Furthermore, CertiK is strengthening cooperation with international law enforcement agencies such as Interpol and Europol to provide technical support for cross-border attack investigations and security policy research.