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Total losses to the Web3 ecosystem due to hacking attacks, phishing scams and Rug Pulls in February reached US$422 million

According to Beosin KYT Anti-Money Laundering Analysis Platform, a blockchain security audit company, as reported by Jinse Finance, the amount of losses from various security incidents increased significantly in February 2024 compared to January. In February 2024, there were more than 19 typical security incidents, resulting in a total loss of $422 million due to hacker attacks, phishing scams, and Rug Pulls, an increase of approximately 102% from January. Among them, the amount of attack incidents was about $347 million, an increase of approximately 110%; phishing and fraud incidents were about $16.08 million, a decrease of approximately 52%; and Rug Pull incidents were about $59.38 million, an increase of approximately 440%. The largest attack incident in February was the attack on the encrypted gaming platform PlayDapp due to private key leakage, resulting in a loss of $290 million, which is also the highest security incident loss this year. Other incidents with losses exceeding tens of millions of dollars include: the centralized exchange FixedFloat was attacked, resulting in a loss of $26.1 million; and Axie Infinity co-founder Jihoz.ron's personal address suffered a loss of approximately $10 million due to private key leakage. In addition, the Hong Kong exchange Bitforex suspected a Rug Pull, with an abnormal outflow of $56.5 million from its hot wallet.

jaychris.eth was phished, resulting in the theft of 9 NFTs

PeckShield monitoring, jaychris.eth has become a victim of a phishing scheme, resulting in the theft of 9 NFT data, including Bored Ape Yacht Club #8336 and Mutant Ape Yacht Club #4020.

Scam Sniffer: A user lost approximately 500,000 USDC due to a phishing attack

According to Scam Sniffer, a user lost about 500,000 USDC due to a phishing attack on the network 3 hours ago. Users are reminded to be vigilant and avoid connecting to phishing websites.

London police have blocked 43 encrypted phishing websites

Pete O'Doherty, temporary director of the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) in London, UK, revealed that NFIB has discovered a fake email address claiming to be from the cryptocurrency website Blockchain.com. The authorities found that 42 other domains had been registered, including "actionfraud.info" and "depart-fraud.com", and the police immediately blocked these addresses. NFIB urges those affected by cybercrime to report through official channels and hotlines. As of December 2023, the police have successfully deleted nearly 300,000 malicious websites, some of which include phishing attempts claiming that email recipients have won special benefits packages.

Scam Sniffer: $55M stolen in January EVM on-chain phishing scam

Scam Sniffer released a phishing report for January on platform X. The data shows that phishing scams on the EVM chain in that month resulted in over $55 million being stolen, with the top 7 victims losing a total of $17 million. Scammers created over 11,000 phishing websites, impersonating projects such as Manta Network, Frame, SatoshiVM, AltLayer, Dymension, zkSync, Pyth, Opensea, Optimism, and Blast. Most of the thefts were due to signing ERC20 Permit and increaseAllowance signatures.

Scam Sniffer: Someone lost about $468,000 to a phishing scam half an hour ago

According to the Web3 anti-fraud platform Scam Sniffer, approximately half an hour ago, someone lost a total of $468,000 worth of Lido ETH and Coinbase ETH through a phishing scam.

PeckShield: Two addresses suffered phishing attacks, resulting in a total loss of approximately US$340,000 in assets

PeckShield monitoring revealed that two addresses were subjected to a phishing attack, resulting in a total loss of approximately $340,000 in assets. Among them, the address starting with 0x09e5 was stolen 47.23 stETH (valued at approximately $109,000), and the address starting with 0xd548 was stolen 100 stETH (valued at approximately $231,000).

Atomics Market: People pretend to be AM tg and send a lot of spam links in it

Atomicals Market stated on social media that we have discovered someone impersonating AM tg and sending a large amount of spam links. Please do not click on any links in this group to prevent assets from being stolen.

GoPlus: A large number of WEN airdrop phishing scams targeting the Jupiter LaunchPad project have occurred, please look for the official channels

GoPlus issued a risk warning on X platform. Jupiter's first LaunchPad project, WEN, will be airdropped from January 25th to January 29th at 11:00. There have been many airdrop phishing scams targeting WEN, with most of them imitating WEN and Jupiter's official Twitter accounts and using phishing accounts and links in their comment sections to lure clicks. Some users have already been deceived. Please make sure to use official channels.

Scam Sniffer: One user lost nearly $620,000 in aEthWBTC, rsETH and swETH to a phishing scam

Scam Sniffer posted on X platform that about 15 minutes ago, a user lost a value of 618,796 US dollars in aEthWBTC, rsETH, and swETH due to a phishing scam.