Hackers stole about $1.7B this year from Crypto projects

The amount of funds crypto projects lost to hackers has declined by about half to around $1.7 billion so far this year, amid improved security measures and an uptick in law enforcement actions, Report informs referring to Bloomberg.

Even with any additional hacks in December, this year will likely “finish with significantly lower totals than 2022,” according to TRM Labs, which helps clients detect financial crimes. Last year’s tally of $4 billion from crypto hacks included a number of large thefts, such as a $600 million-plus attack on a blockchain network called Ronin bridge that was connected to the Axie Infinity game.

The top 10 hacks had netted criminals almost 70% of all stolen funds this year, TRM found. Attacks against decentralized lending app Euler Finance, Multichain bridge connecting different blockchains, and Poloniex crypto exchange netted $100 million each, for example.

Infrastructure attacks - such as private-key theft that gives hackers access to a crypto project’s servers or software to steal funds or manipulate trades - contributed to nearly 60% of the total stolen this year, according to TRM.