According to Techub News, according to Beosin Alert monitoring and early warning, the total losses in the Web3 field due to hacker attacks, phishing scams and project party Rug Pull reached 1.54 billion US dollars in the first half of 2024. Among them, there were 78 major attack incidents with a total loss of approximately US$1.193 billion; 64 project party Rug Pull incidents with a total loss of approximately US$119 million; and the total loss of phishing scams was approximately US$232 million.

In the first half of 2024, a total of three security incidents occurred with losses exceeding US$100 million. Total losses in May reached $450 million, the costliest month in the first half of 2024. From the perspective of the types of attacked projects, the project type with the highest losses was CEX. The four attacks on CEX caused a total loss of approximately US$392 million, accounting for 32.8% of all attack losses. Judging from the amount of losses of each chain, Ethereum is still the chain with the highest losses and the most attacks. 32 attacks caused losses of US$470 million, accounting for 39.4% of the total losses. From the perspective of attack methods, a total of 22 private key leaks occurred in the first half of the year, causing losses of US$894 million, accounting for approximately 75% of the total attack losses, making it the highest proportion of attack types. Looking at the flow of funds, approximately $470 million (39.3%) of the stolen funds were frozen or recovered. This is a significant improvement from 2023. Among the 78 attacks in the first half of the year, 43 still came from contract vulnerability exploitation. It is recommended that the project team seek a professional security company to conduct an audit before going online.