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Crypto Scam Revenue Down 65% In 2022: Here's Why The Numbers Are Dropping
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 - 4:07pm | 625The total scam revenue in 2022 currently stands at $1.6 billion, 65% less than it was through the end of July 2021, as a result of falling exchange rates for various cryptocurrencies, a new report has revealed. Scams declined in line with the fall in Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) price According to...
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Binance Recovers $450K Of Stolen Funds
Friday, August 12, 2022 - 1:02pm | 471Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on Friday said the cryptocurrency exchange has recovered $450,000 worth of funds stolen from decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance. Hackers had stolen about $570,000 last Tuesday. The protocol’s developers said the source of the issue had been...
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$2B In Crypto Stolen From Cross-Chain Bridges In 2022: Chainalysis
Thursday, August 4, 2022 - 12:12pm | 599An estimated $2 billion worth of cryptocurrencies has been stolen from cross-chain bridges across 13 separate hacks so far this year. The attacks on cross-chain bridges account for 69% of total funds stolen, according to a recent report by blockchain data firm Chainalysis, and pose a serious risk...
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Harmony Offers $1M For Information About Stolen Funds
Monday, June 27, 2022 - 7:06pm | 548Layer 1 blockchain protocol Harmony (CRYPTO: ONE) has offered a bounty of $1 million for information about a theft on the Horizon bridge amounting to around $100 million, in which tokens including Wrapped Ethereum (CRYPTO: WETH), Aave (CRYPTO: AAVE), SushiSwap (CRYPTO: SUSHI),...