A study by SlowMist states that cybercriminals have managed to steal around $30 billion in digital currencies since 2012.
In total, there have been just over 1,100 successful attacks during this time, as a result of which attackers have managed to steal funds. Most often, they found vulnerabilities in smart contracts to gain access to information and crypto wallets of victims.
The total damage from the activities of hackers and fraudsters is estimated at about 2.5% of the crypto market capitalization.
The researchers emphasized that over the past 11 years, criminals managed to hack bitcoin exchanges 118 times and 217 times to steal funds from ethereum-based projects.
The Binance Chain network was subjected to 162 attacks. In addition, hackers managed to steal funds from the NFT market. Last summer, Elliptic found that criminals had stolen $100.6 million worth of non-interchangeable tokens since 2021.