According to TechFlow, Scam Sniffer released the 2024 mid-year phishing report. In the first half of 2024, 260,000 victims lost $314 million on the EVM chain, of which 20 people lost more than $1 million each, totaling $58 million. A victim with the address 0xfb94d3404c1d3d9d6f08f79e58041d5ea95 lost $11 million, becoming the second largest theft victim in history. Most ERC20 token thefts stem from signing phishing signatures such as Permit, IncreaseAllowance, and Uniswap Permit2.
The report pointed out that most of the large thefts involved Staking, Restaking, Aave mortgage and Pendle tokens, and recommended optimizing the display of major phishing signatures to protect assets. Victims were mostly directed to phishing websites through phishing comments impersonating Twitter accounts. Scam Sniffer recommends that users install its extension to enhance security and integrate phishing domain and address blacklists.
