Beosin: Total losses to the Web3 ecosystem due to hacker attacks in September exceeded US$360 million

Odaily Planet Daily News According to the Beosin EagleEye security risk monitoring, early warning and blocking platform, a subsidiary of the blockchain security audit company Beosin, monitoring shows that in September 2023, the amount of losses from various security incidents increased significantly compared with August. More than 16 typical security incidents occurred in September, with total losses caused by hacker attacks, phishing scams and rug pulls reaching US$360 million, an increase of approximately 414% from August. Among them, attacks amounted to approximately US$323 million, phishing scams amounted to US$32.12 million, and rug pulls amounted to US$5.3 million. A total of 4 security incidents involving more than 10 million US dollars occurred this month: US$200 million was stolen from Mixin Network, US$70 million was stolen from the hot wallet of crypto exchange CoinEx, US$41.3 million was stolen from cryptographic gambling platform Stake, and a certain whale address was phished The loss was approximately US$24.23 million. These four incidents accounted for 93% of the total losses. In addition, this month’s Hong Kong virtual asset trading platform JPEX fraud case saw many victims, with the amount involved reaching US$190 million, making it the most noteworthy cryptocurrency case in recent times.