Since the beginning of 2023, hackers have stolen approximately $1.7 billion from various crypto projects. This figure is two times less than in 2022, when losses from cyber attacks reach $ 4 billion. companies TRM Laboratories.
According to experts, this year, thanks to improvements in security measures and more active work by law enforcement agencies, it has become even more difficult for hackers to access other people’s crypto wallets.
Infrastructure attacks, such as the theft of private keys that allow hackers to access a crypto project’s servers or software to withdraw funds or manipulate trades, accounted for nearly 60% of total digital currency cybercrimes this year, according to TRM.
TRM Labs noted that 70% of stolen cryptocurrency assets were stolen as a result of the top 10 cyber attacks. These included hacks of the decentralized lending service Euler Finance, which connects different blockchains of the Multichain bridge and the Poloniex crypto exchange. Each of these operations earned the attackers $100 million.
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