According to Cointelegraph, a report shared by blockchain security company CertiK shows that malicious actors targeting the crypto space stole more than $45 million in digital assets from victims in August, bringing the total amount so far this year to $997 million. In the report, CertiK emphasized that in August, exit scams stole about $26 million, flash loan attacks stole $6.4 million, and vulnerability exploits stole $13.5 million. CertiK confirmed that the total loss exceeded $45 million. CertiK pointed out that some major events led to an increase in the amount of losses, including the Zunami Protocol attack (loss of $2.2 million), the Exactly Protocol vulnerability exploit (loss of $7.3 million), and the PEPE (PEPE) withdrawal event (loss of $13.2 million). According to CertiK statistics, more than $997 million has been lost so far in 2023 due to vulnerability exploits, hacker attacks, and scams. Among them, flash loan attacks lost about $261 million, exit scams lost more than $137 million, and vulnerability exploits lost more than $596 million. Although the losses in August were still high, the amount of losses was significantly reduced compared to the previous month. According to the records of Web3 data agency De.Fi, the total losses in July 2023 were approximately US$486 million, of which the Multichain vulnerability alone accounted for approximately US$231 million of the total losses.