Cripto lost from exploitat, fraud, hit $ 1.5B in February with Bibit Hack: certik

Losses for crypts of fraud, exploits and hacks amounted to almost 1.53 billion dollars in February, with $ 1.4 billion for losses in LIV, CLOCKCHAIN ​​SAFETY FIRMA CERTIK said.

21. February on Babit at Bibit’s Lazarus Group North Korea was the biggest crypto hack ever, more than doubling $ 650 million Ronin Bridge Hack In March 2022. “He also made Lazar,” certicated Certics 28. February K mail.

February lost crypto amount is almost 1,500% jump with $ 98 million recorded from the certik in January. However, excluding bushy losses, the remaining crypts of losses last month amounted to over $ 126 million, still for 28.5% leap.

Bibit said the attackers took control of the storage wallet. FBI later confirmed Industry reports that North Korea was behind the attack and began to turn the stolen crypto and torn is “over thousand addresses to several blocks”.

The certik added that it was Another most significant incident of the month It was 24. February in Stablecoin Firm to pay Infini, which stole $ 49 million.

27. February reportCertic said that a key wallet used in the attack previously involved in the development of the Infini contract and retained administrative rights Redeem all Tokens Treasury.

“The exploitation emphasizes great vulnerability, demonstrating how administrator privileges can become a unique failure point,” the entire certix report reads. “One basic aspect of Blockcacka’s safety is understanding how to protect your private keys.”

Infini team offered a chance to hold 20% of stolen prey if the rest returned, along with the guarantee that the hacker would not face any legal consequences.

There was a 48-hour deadline, which has long passed and toward Etherencanu, wallet It is used by the hacker and still has a balance of over 17,000 ether (El) It’s worth $ 43 million.

No public announcement is given whether the hacker plans to accept the offer and return any means.

Related: Babit hackers continue washing, moving another 62,200 ETE

Decentralized refund The zkling protocol suffered third largest exploitation For February, when it lost $ 10 million to Hackers 12. February.

All in all, the certik says that the top category for losses in February was a wallet compromise, and the vulnerabilities of the code, resulting in 20 million dollars of losses, and then saw that hackers saw $ 1.8 million.

Losses for crypts fraud, exploitation and hacking decreased in the last days 2024. Years with December registration of stolen diminishing of the smallest amount to $ 28.6 million compared to $ 63.8 million in November and $ 115.8 million in October.

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