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SlowMist: 410 security incidents in the crypto space in 2024, with losses of $2.013 billion, a decrease of 19.02% year-on-year

Security agency SlowMist recently released the "Blockchain Security and Anti-Money Laundering Annual Report 2024", which states: According to SlowMist Hacked, there were 410 security incidents in 2024, with a loss of $2.013 billion. Compared with 2023 (464 incidents, with a loss of about $2.486 billion), the loss decreased by 19.02% year-on-year. DeFi is still the most commonly attacked area. In 2024, there were 339 DeFi security incidents, accounting for 82.68% of the total number of security incidents, and the loss was as high as 1.029 billion US dollars. Compared with 2023 (282 incidents, the loss was about 773 million US dollars), the loss increased by 33.12% year-on-year. From an ecological perspective, Ethereum suffered the highest loss at $465 million, followed by BSC at $87.35 million. From the cause of the incident, the contract vulnerabilities caused the most security incidents, up to 99 pieces, resulting in a loss of about 214 million dollars. Secondly, the security incident caused by the account was hacked.