Hackers stole $ 98.19 million from Web3 projects in January 2025

In January 2025, the Web3 Industry encountered 40 hacker attacks in which $ 98.19 million was stolen. According to SlowMist Hacked Database, most of the hacks in smart contracts, compromising accounts and leakage of private keys. As a result, $ 87.94 million was lost, of which only $ 1.47 million managed to return $ 10.25 million due to phishing attacks that affected 9.22 thousand users.

One of the largest incidents was the hack of the Singapore crypto -tank Phemex on January 23. Attackers attacked the hot wallet of the platform and withdrew about $ 70 million. The head of Federico Variola said that cold wallets were safe.

On the 1st day of the new year, the Nooones P2P platform fell under the blow. Hackers attacked the hot wallets of the project in networks Ethereum, Tron, Solana And the BSC, which led to hundreds of suspicious transactions and losses by $ 7.2 million. According to the general director of Nooones, Ray Yusef, the attackers used the vulnerability in the Solana bridge.

Adspower cybersecurity specialists recorded an incident with infected malicious code on January 24. Hackers used vulnerability in third -party browser extensions to kidnap more than $ 4.7 million.

Attackers gained access to a private key managing the main Moby contracts on January 8. This threatened the assets of the platform. As a result of the attack, hackers tried to withdraw 3.77 WBTC, 207.76 Weth and 1,500 351.5 USDC. However, using the Seal911 Moby command, about 1.47 million USDC managed to return.

On the same day, on the Orange Finance platform, an error was revealed in the multi -signature system that the attackers took advantage of. They gained full control over the storage facilities of the project and withdrew about $ 830 thousand. About 94% of the amount amounted to deposited assets, the remaining 6% were lost due to excessive permits.

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Peter Ivanov