🔐 Cybersecurity News (January 22, 2024):

1️⃣ CoinGecko: Out of 24,000 cryptocurrency projects listed on the #CoinGecko aggregator since 2014, 14,039 have ceased to exist. The majority of these "dead" projects were launched during the bull run in 2020–2021 — 7,530 cryptocurrencies, accounting for 53.6% of the total. 📊

2️⃣ Socket: The team behind the cross-chain bridge aggregator Socket reported an #attack that resulted in a loss of $3.3 million for the protocol. As a security measure, they recommended users to revoke all approvals. ⚔️

3️⃣ Chainalysis: According to the results of 2023, the volume of illegal gains from cryptocurrency fraud and hacks decreased by 29.2% and 54.3%, respectively. Analysts calculated that stolen #cryptocurrency accounted for 0.34% of the total volume of on-chain transactions in 2023. The total amount was $24.2 billion compared to $39.6 billion in 2022. 🔍

4️⃣ Wise Advice: Traders from South Korea accused the modular blockchain Manta of dumping the recently launched token MANTA. This happened right after the listing on several major cryptocurrency exchanges. South Korean participants in the crypto market claimed that on the day of listing on the local Bithumb exchange, the #Manta project decided to engage in money laundering. Manta has not yet commented on the situation. 🇰🇷

5️⃣ AngaraSecurity: Specialists from AngaraSecurity analyzed around 22,000 posts in open Telegram channels related to cryptocurrencies in 2023 and found that almost 9,000 of them (over 40%) were marked as suspicious and subsequently removed. In most messages, authors encouraged users to invest in the crypto market by transferring money to a bank card. 🕵️‍♂️

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