Hackers Steal $1.25B from Web3 Projects in 2023
Analysists from Immunefi found that from January to August, Web3 platform losses from hackers and scammers had reached $1.25 billion.
Analysists from Immunefi found that from January to August, Web3 platform losses from hackers and scammers had reached $1.25 billion.
An unknown hacker took advantage of an exploit in the Balancer v2 DeFi programmable liquidity platform to steal around $900,000 worth of DAI stablecoins.
The administrators of the Terra project reported on August 19 the terra.money domain sites had been compromised.
Harbor Protocol was the victim of an attack on August 19, resulting in the storages of stOSMO, LUNA, and WMATIC being damaged.
An ethical hacker seized on July 30 almost 3,000 ETH, worth approximately $5.4 million, from a malicious hacker exploiting the recent hack of the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance.
Curve Finance, a popular decentralized exchange, confirmed today that $52 million was stolen over the weekend due to an exploitable bug in the Vyper language, which is used to write smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.
SlowMist experts have uncovered an attack that uses fake transactions to crypto exchanges.
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