In the first half of the year, crypto hacking attacks caused about $1.32 billion in losses, with major attack incidents mainly caused by permission exposure and privileged access.

PANews, July 25 — According to Onchain Lens monitoring, losses from cryptocurrency hacker attacks in the first half of the year totaled about $1.32 billion, involving 224 publicly disclosed incidents. The highest-loss events include access control failures, phishing attacks, and oracle issues. The attack analysis is as follows:

1. Permission leakage and privileged access are the culprits behind multiple major attack incidents:

• Kelp DAO: $292 million
• Drift Protocol: $280 million
• Humanity Protocol: $31 million
• Step Finance: $30 million
• Truebit: $26.5 million
• Resolv Labs: $25 million
• AFX: $24.15 million
• BonkDAO: $21 million

2. Phishing and social engineering attacks

• Social engineering attacks: $282 million

3. Oracle issues

• Ostium: $24 million
• Blend Protocol: $10.86 million
• Bonzo: $9 million