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    For one more 12 months, hackers stole billions of {dollars} in crypto. But for the primary time since 2020, the development is downwards, in accordance with crypto safety companies.

    This 12 months, hackers stole round $2 billion {dollars} in crypto throughout dozens of cyberattacks and thefts, in accordance with De.FI, the web3 safety agency that runs the REKT database. The website ranks the worst-ever crypto hacks, from the breach of the Ronin community in 2022, the place hackers stole greater than $600 million in crypto in what stands as the biggest incident in historical past, to the hack towards Mixin Network this 12 months, which netted the hackers round $200 million.

    “This amount, though dispersed across various incidents, underscores the persistent vulnerabilities and challenges within the DeFi ecosystem,” De.Fi wrote in its report, which the agency shared with Ztoog. “2023 stood as a testament to both the ongoing vulnerabilities and the strides made in addressing them, even as interest in the space was relatively muted by the ongoing bear market in the first half of the year.”

    Earlier in December, blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs additionally launched an estimate of the quantity of crypto stolen by hackers this 12 months. According to the corporate, the overall as of mid-December stood at about $1.7 billion.

    Among the opposite worst crypto thefts of the 12 months embrace the hack towards Euler Finance, in which hackers stole virtually $200 million; in addition to main hacks towards Multichain ($126 million), BonqDAO ($120 million), Poloniex ($114 million) and Atomic Wallet ($100 million), amongst lots of of others.

    Last 12 months, blockchain monitoring agency Chainalysis reported that cybercriminals had stolen an all-time file of round $3.8 billion in crypto. Of these, $1.7 billion had been stolen by North Korean authorities hackers referred to as Lazarus Group, one of the vital prolific teams of crypto thieves, as a part of an effort to fund the regime’s sanctioned nuclear weapons program.

    “It isn’t a stretch to say that cryptocurrency hacking is a sizable chunk of the nation’s economy,” Chainalysis stated in its report final 12 months.

    The 12 months earlier than, hackers stole $3.3 billion in 2021, in accordance with Chainalysis,

    It’s unimaginable to foretell what is going to occur in 2024. But given the poor safety applied by many crypto and web3 initiatives and the sheer quantity of financial worth they maintain as mentioned earlier this 12 months at Ztoog Disrupt, we are able to count on hackers to proceed concentrating on the rising trade.

    Correction: Amended attribution to the REKT Database in the second paragraph.

     

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