DeFi
Good news ? Losses from hacks and fraud decreased by 20% in 2024
Losses from hacking and carpet ripping through 2024 to date total more than $473 million across 108 incidents, according to the latest data from Immunefi. This represents a 20% decrease compared to the same period in 2023, which saw losses of more than $595 million.
In May 2024, hacking and fraud victims lost $52.4 million across 21 incidents, a 12% decrease from May 2023’s losses of nearly $60 million and a decrease of 28 % month to month.
The crypto bug bounty platform report observed that a majority of the losses in May came from two projects: Gala Games, a crypto gaming project that lost $21 million, and SonneFinance, a decentralized lending protocol that lost $20 million.
During the same period, decentralized finance (DeFi) was the main target of exploits, while its centralized counterpart, CeFis, did not suffer any major attacks.
Immunefi said hacks were the leading cause of losses compared to fraud. A total of $50.6 million was lost due to 14 hacking incidents. Seven fraud incidents in May resulted in losses of $1.75 million.
Additionally, Ethereum and BNB chains were the most targeted chains in May 2024, accounting for 62% of total losses on targeted chains.
Ethereum saw the most attacks, with nine incidents accounting for 43% of the total losses on the targeted chains. Next came BNB Chain, which saw four incidents, accounting for 19% of the total.
Meanwhile, Base, Arbitrum, Solana, TON, Blast, Fantom, Optimism and Polygon each had 1 incident, each accounting for 4.8% of the total.