Crypto exploit, scam losses drop to $28.8M in March after February spike

Losses to crypto scams, exploits, and hacks dropped to conscionable $28.8 cardinal successful March, acold from February’s spike to $1.5 cardinal successful losses aft the Bybit hack.

Code vulnerabilities accounted for the astir losses, astatine implicit $14 million, portion wallet compromises were utilized to bargain implicit $8 million, blockchain information steadfast CertiK said successful an April 1 station to X.

The astir important nonaccomplishment for the period was the $13 cardinal March 25 smart declaration exploit of the decentralized lending protocol Abracadabra.money.

After accounting for returned funds, a full of $28.8 cardinal was stolen done exploits, hacks and scams successful March. Source: CertiK

In a abstracted March 27 report, the blockchain information steadfast said, “The attacker was capable to get funds, liquidate themselves, past get funds again without repaying them.”

“This was owed to the liquidation process not overwriting records successful RouterOrder that counted arsenic collateral, allowing the exploiter to falsely get further funds aft liquidation,” CertiK said.

The protocols squad has offered a 20% bounty, treble the modular 10%, successful speech for the instrumentality of the funds, according to CertiK. So far, nary nationalist updates person been fixed connected whether immoderate funds person been returned.

The 2nd highest monthly nonaccomplishment was restaking protocol Zoth aft its deployer wallet was compromised and the attacker withdrew implicit $8.4 million successful crypto assets. 

March crypto losses reduced aft hacker returned immoderate funds 

Some of the stolen funds successful March were returned. In total, CertiK says implicit $33 cardinal was stolen for the month, but decentralized speech aggregator 1inch successfully recovered astir of the $5 cardinal stolen successful a March 5 exploit aft negotiating a bug bounty statement with the attacker.

The full figures, however, exclude an chartless Coinbase user who crypto sleuth ZachXBT claims mislaid 400 Bitcoin (BTC), worthy $34 million. At the aforesaid time, ZachXBT said implicit $46 cardinal could person been mislaid successful March to phishing scams spoofing crypto exchanges.

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Australian national constabulary said connected March 21 that they had to alert 130 people of a connection scam aimed astatine crypto users that spoofed the aforesaid “sender ID” arsenic morganatic crypto exchanges. 

X users besides reported connected March 14 of messages spoofing crypto exchanges trying to instrumentality users into mounting up a new wallet utilizing pre-generated betterment phrases controlled by the fraudsters.

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