Bitget launches Anti-Scam Month 2026, recovers $32.3M

Bitget launched Anti-Scam Month 2026 under the theme More Assets, Stronger Shield and reported it helped users recover about $32.3 million tied to security incidents and fraudulent activity. The announcement was accompanied by the company’s 2025 security and fraud-prevention results.

In 2025 Bitget’s security systems intercepted more than 150 million malicious attack requests, identified over 13,000 high-risk malicious IP addresses and handled 18,135 user protection cases. The company reported that its interventions assisted in recovering roughly $32.3 million linked to security incidents and scams.

Technical changes made in 2025 include broader deployment of passkey authentication based on FIDO2 and WebAuthn standards, expanded multi-factor authentication for high-risk account actions, strengthened anti-phishing protections and real-time device management controls that let users monitor and manage account access. Bitget’s web security and real-time threat systems recorded over 2.8 billion interceptions through custom protection rules and mitigated more than 1.5 billion distributed denial-of-service attack attempts. The platform added machine-learning behavioral analysis to detect suspicious activity across multiple layers of its systems.

User education was a central element of the campaign. Bitget said Anti-Scam Month activities in 2024 and 2025 reached about 1.38 billion users through security awareness content, educational materials and community events. The company expanded an online Anti-Scam Hub, maintained a public bug bounty program and ran the Smarter Eyes Challenge, which drew nearly 50,000 participants in simulated phishing and scam-detection exercises.

Bitget reported partnerships with blockchain security firms SlowMist and Elliptic for threat intelligence sharing and anti-fraud research. The company said it serves more than 125 million users and offers access to over 2 million crypto tokens and more than 100 tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, foreign exchange instruments and precious metals. Bitget also noted global commercial partnerships and a blockchain education initiative with UNICEF.

Hon Ng, chief legal officer at Bitget, wrote in a statement: “Protecting users requires continuous risk monitoring, rapid response mechanisms, security education, and close cooperation across the industry.”

Bitget included a standard investor warning that digital asset prices can be volatile and advised users to seek independent financial advice before investing.