Crypto and Web3 initiatives suffered a 153% enhance in assault incidents from July to September 2023 in comparison with the identical interval in 2022, based on a report from blockchain safety platform Immunefi. In Q3 2022, there have been a complete of 30 assault incidents. However in Q3 2023, this quantity swelled to 76. Almost $686 million was misplaced within the latest quarter.
The very best loss got here from the Mixin hack of September 25, which drained roughly $200 million. The Multichain hack was the second-worst assault of the quarter, leading to over $126 million in losses which have nonetheless not been recovered. Along with these incidents, the Lazarus Group drained over $208 million price of crypto by means of a number of assaults, together with hacks of centralized companies CoinEx, Alphapo, Stake, and Coinspaid. The Lazarus Group was chargeable for 30% of all stolen crypto in Q3, the report said.
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A small portion of Q3 assaults consisted of rug pulls and different scams. Solely $23 million, or 3.3% of whole losses, got here from all these incidents, whereas the remaining 96.7% got here from hacks or exploits. General, financial losses from scams in Q3 decreased by 23.9% in comparison with Q3 2022.
The report said that decentralized finance (DeFi) hacks accounted for 72.9% of whole losses, whereas centralized companies accounted for less than 27.1% of exploit losses. Immunefi didn’t state how they outlined “decentralized” versus “centralized” companies.
The 2 networks most focused by hackers and scammers have been Ethereum and BNB Chain. Ethereum represented 42.7% of losses, whereas BNB Chain represented 30.5%. Base and Optimism have been the third and fourth hottest networks for attackers to use.
The report supplies additional proof that Q3 has been the worst quarter of the 12 months for crypto-related hacks and scams. A report from Certik on October 2 got here to related conclusions.
