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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 18, 2026Published at 1:40 AM EDT · New York
Bitget's $388 million loss came through hacked security appliances, not stolen keys, and other September exploits also ran through trusted infrastructure
Hot-wallet key leaks at Duelbits and a signing-key compromise on the SingularityNET bridge followed the same pattern, while NEAR Intents lost $3.8 million to a deposit-accounting bug.
Rekt News has now published post-mortems on Bitget, Duelbits, SingularityNET and NEAR Intents, and most of the large September losses share one feature. The attackers used systems the victims trusted rather than flaws in on-chain contract c…
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Losses Move to Components That Worked as Designed
A growing share of DeFi losses will come not from buggy contract code but from components behaving exactly as specified — oracle forwarders, validator signature sets, governance votes and other trusted off-contract inputs — so audits and bug bounties scoped to on-chain code keep missing the failure surface, and protocols will be repeatedly forced to extend review, scope and monitoring to their privileged operational infrastructure.
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