The losses of crypt’s phishing attacks are reduced by almost 50% in February

Cripto phishing losses have fallen with almost half in February, but only one cheater itself costs victims of over $ 600,000, data emissions.

Losses from crypto Phishing The attacks fell 48% to $ 5.32 million in February, marking the third consecutive monthly decline of $ 10.25 million in January and $ 23.58 million in December, data from Skysniffer emissions.

In a k nit Analysts 5. Marta revealed that a total of 7,442 victims lost their cryptic funds due to phishing attacks in February, compared to 9.220 in January. The biggest losses come from targeted fraud.

For example, addressing the address, a type of attack in which fraudsters manipulate transaction histories to cheat users in sending funds in false addresses, led to eat in Etherem in Ethereum (El). Permission of fraud costs another victim of $ 611,000. Unclearned hydro approval resulted in a 410,000 dollar hit, while the attack “InctreseapPPPROVAL”, which was using users in raising the life consumption for malicious contracts, drained $ 326,000.

Scamsniffer analysts pointed to the case when one victim lost only over $ 607,000 for a phishing approval signed more than a year ago. The analysts called users to delight old approvals, while gas fees were low low.

The drop in losses could potentially signal better security consciousness or less successful attacks, analysts explain, although great value frauds continue.

As a cripto.news export Earlier, February saw 1.53 billion dollars in CRYPTO losses, an increase of 18K from a year ago, is largely running from $ 1.46 billion from Hack. In the research report, Blocchain’s security company immunefija explained that the loss of two February only arrived with two incidents, who lost 1.46 billion dollars and Stablecoin Bank Infini, which suffered 49.5 million Hack $ 49.5 million.

The remaining losses are widespread in seven smaller attacks, and the zkling and ionic money lose $ 9.5 million and $ 8.6 million, respectively.