According to the research conducted by Web3 platform Immunefi, last month broke the record of the year in terms of hacks and frauds in the cryptocurrency market.
According to the report shared by Immunefi, cryptocurrency users hacks and scams because of total More than $343 million experienced loss.
in October about 22 million dollars In the transition from month to month in this amount, measured as More than 15x growth happened.
According to Immunefi’s research, cryptocurrency users have been affected by 296 hacking and fraud cases. more than $1.75 billion since the beginning of the year lost.
In the events that took place last month, crypto money platforms were mainly directly targeted. 46.2% of the losses ($158.6 million) with 37 cases were DeFi; 4 of them originated from CeFi with 53.8% ($184.4 million).
During the month, Poloniex, HTX, formerly known as Huobi, and Kronos Research were attacked.
of these losses More than $335 million caused by hacking attacks. However, approximately $7.5 million was lost to scams.
According to the report, throughout the month most BNB Chain and Ethereum ecosystems were targeted. 53.7% of these are BNB Chain and 29.3% are Ethereum. The rest of the attacks targeted Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, Fantom and Heco Chain.