According to a CertiK report, exit scams netted $26 million to hackers in August, instant loan attacks netted $6.4 million, and other vulnerabilities in crypto projects allowed them to withdraw another $13.5 million.
The largest exit scam was the transfer and sale of $13.2 million worth of memcoins by the PEPE development team. DeFi projects Exactly Protocol ($7.3 million), Magnate Finance ($5.4 million) and others were also hacked.
If we count for a year, then as part of attacks using instant loans, hackers managed to get $261 million. Hackers withdrew another $596 million thanks to various vulnerabilities, and organizers of exit scams received $137 million.
The total volume of losses in August was an order of magnitude lower than in July, when the volume of hacks and fraud amounted to $486 million. The hack of the Multichain project alone in July brought the attackers $231 million.
Earlier it was reported that, according to South Korean intelligence, North Korean hackers in 2023 managed to obtain assets worth $180 million.
Source: Bits
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