Huobi HTX Half-Year Security Report: Multi-Dimensional Protection System Builds Industry Trust

In the first half of 2025, the cryptocurrency industry was once again alarmed by frequent security incidents. On February 21, the global trading platform Bybit suffered a major hacker attack, resulting in losses exceeding $1.4 billion, making it the largest single theft in history. The "Lazarus" organization, which emerged behind the incident, once again exposed deep-seated issues within the industry regarding the evolution of attack methods, system vulnerabilities, and cross-platform response mechanisms.

In this context, Huobi HTX, as a global leading cryptocurrency asset service platform, continues to increase its investment in security. By establishing three major security systems for risk control, operations, and public opinion, it comprehensively strengthens the multi-dimensional protection of accounts, transactions, and fund information, effectively blocking multiple risk events in the first half of 2025, safeguarding users' asset security.

Industry Security Situation: Frequent Attacks, Complex Technology

In the first half of 2025, the crypto market experienced frequent hacker attacks and fraud incidents, with on-chain malicious activities evolving from "simple phishing" to "composite attacks": including social engineering, malicious contract deployment, UI forgery, deep disguise, etc., exploiting the gaps between platform security systems for infiltration. Incidents such as the Bybit hacking event and multiple protocol theft cases on the Solana chain reveal the high level of specialization and automation of attackers' methods.

At the same time, the regulatory environment is also constantly changing. Several countries have successively introduced compliance regulations for virtual asset service providers, requiring platforms to meet standards in anti-money laundering, account protection, risk control auditing, etc., promoting the industry as a whole to move towards "high standards of safety and compliance."

Mainstream security technologies are also advancing, with on-chain transaction traceability systems, AI risk control engines, and automated contract audits gradually becoming standard tools for platforms, effectively enhancing the ability to identify and respond to unknown risks.

Semi-Annual Data Review: Comprehensive Improvement in Black Address Interception, Scam Tracking, and User Protection

In the first half of 2025, Huobi HTX delivered impressive results in terms of account security, trading security, and fund security.

Account Security: Sent over 2.01 million security alerts to users, including 1.809 million via email and 206,000 via SMS, effectively raising user security awareness. Successfully cracked down on 127 fraudulent app download pages and phishing websites, preventing users from falling into traps.

Transaction Security: Successfully intercepted 15 withdrawal operations to scam addresses, recovering a total of 104,847 USDT for users; received and processed 68 reports of external stolen asset inflows from users and partner channels, helping to freeze stolen funds of 1,429,787 USDT.

In terms of fund security: 20,871 new blacklisted addresses were added, intercepting 47 recharge operations involving black addresses, preventing illegal funds from invading the platform, with an amount totaling 1,449,467 USDT.

Among them, Huobi HTX's security data for June shows that Huobi HTX continues to enhance security measures: intercepted 5 fraudulent withdrawals, helping external users freeze stolen assets worth over $400,000; 2,769 new blacklisted addresses added this month, intercepted amount of 21,239 USDT; 41 new phishing links and counterfeit platform websites targeted.

Security Construction Achievements: New Systems, New Technologies, New Concepts, Multi-Dimensional Collaborative Protection

In order to achieve comprehensive protection of user assets and platform operations, Huobi HTX will undertake multiple upgrades and technical restructuring of its security system in the first half of 2025, establishing three major security systems covering "risk control, operations, and public opinion:"

Risk Control System: Independently developed millisecond-level real-time risk control rule engine and comprehensive monitoring and alarming system, covering the entire platform business chain. Key user behavior points are subjected to real-time filtering, significantly reducing risks such as account theft, money laundering, and malicious trading.

Operational System: Establish a 7×24 hour customer service and security operation response team to promptly respond to and handle various risk alerts and security incidents, ensuring efficient and closed-loop risk management.

Public Opinion System: Establish a "Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism" through close communication and cooperation with leading security companies, project parties, and exchanges in the industry, to achieve rapid perception and synchronized response to industry security incidents, enhancing hacker tracking and cross-platform collaboration capabilities.

Based on the comprehensive security system mentioned above, Huobi HTX combines multiple verification, behavioral recognition, dynamic risk level management, and collaboration with security agencies to eliminate fake pages, continuously reducing the probability of users falling victim. In terms of fund security, Huobi HTX has created a blacklist of millions of addresses and collaborated with authoritative organizations to establish an anti-money laundering information database, combining on-chain tracking systems with risk models to accurately identify abnormal fund flows and prevent the inflow of suspicious assets and loss of user funds. In terms of information security, the platform implements a financial-grade information security system and strict internal control measures to ensure the safety of user information and prevent data leakage or misuse.

In addition, Huobi HTX has fully upgraded its PoR data storage system to TiDB storage mode, further enhancing system stability and processing efficiency, while effectively reducing operational costs. Data shows that in the first half of 2025, the overall asset data of Huobi HTX has significantly increased, with core asset reserves continuing to rise. Stablecoins such as USDT and ETH, as well as mainstream currencies, have maintained a net increase trend for several months, and user trust in the platform has continued to strengthen.

Moving Towards a Safer Future: Building a Safe Ecosystem for the Industry Together, Enhancing Trust and Resilience

In the future, Huobi HTX will continue to strengthen its security construction. As Huobi HTX technical experts stated: "Since 2024, we have witnessed the severe challenges faced by the security defenses in the cryptocurrency industry. The Bybit incident once again sounded the alarm for the entire industry at a cost of $1.44 billion—hackers' attacks have shifted from technical vulnerabilities to human weaknesses. In 2025, we strengthened the deep integration of zero trust architecture and behavioral analysis, achieving three core upgrades: dynamic permission verification, full-link transaction verification, and normalization of red-blue confrontation. This lays a solid foundation for advancing the security ecological construction of the cryptocurrency industry and protecting users' assets."

● Dynamic Permission Verification: Fund operations require dual authentication of environmental tags and biometric features to ensure consistency between the operator and the operating environment;

● Full-link transaction verification: A transaction content comparison mechanism based on smart contract level fundamentally eliminates transaction fraud after the front-end UI has been tampered with;

● Normalization of red-blue team exercises: The security team simulates the latest attack methods of hacker organizations and APT groups every month to promote defense and enhance the platform's responsiveness.

Huobi HTX firmly believes that only by actively building a "multi-dimensional and integrated" security 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 worldwide. In the future, Huobi HTX will continue to spare no effort in investing in the construction of security infrastructure, working together with the industry to face increasingly complex security threats, and leading the industry towards a more transparent, healthier, and sustainable direction.

About Huobi HTX

Huobi HTX was established in 2013. After 11 years of development, it has transformed from a cryptocurrency exchange into a comprehensive blockchain business ecosystem, covering digital asset trading, financial derivatives, research, investment, incubation, and other businesses.

HTX, as a leading global Web3 portal, adheres to the development strategy of global expansion, ecological prosperity, wealth effect, and security compliance, providing comprehensive, safe, and reliable value and services for virtual currency enthusiasts around the world.