Chainalysis finds 420% surge in onchain malware driven by state hackers

The shift from conventional infrastructure to public blockchains is the real story: state-linked groups are treating decentralized networks as resilient command-and-control and funding rails, not just payment channels. That raises the stakes for the chains named, since their openness is precisely what makes them useful to actors who can tolerate transparency. Whether compliance teams and chain analysts can keep pace with infrastructure that spans multiple ecosystems is the open question.