{"id":137709,"date":"2022-04-04T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/crypto-2022-hackers-have-nabbed-1-22-billion-already"},"modified":"2022-04-04T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:03:29","slug":"crypto-2022-hackers-have-nabbed-1-22-billion-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/crypto-2022-hackers-have-nabbed-1-22-billion-already","title":{"rendered":"Crypto 2022: Hackers have nabbed $1.22 billion already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crypto-2022-hackers-have-nabbed-1-22-billion-already2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers so far are focusing on decentralized finance (DeFi) projects to steal crypto this year, a new report found, a reversal from 2021 when they used scams and online fraud for most of their exploits.<\/p>\n<p>So far, investors have lost over $1.22 billion to hackers in the first three months of the year, nearly eight times more than the $154 million lost in the first quarter of 2021, according to crypto security firm Immunefi. Ninety-nine percent of those losses were from software exploits, the report found, specifically the hacks against Wormhole and Ronin.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an anomaly, experts warn. It\u2019s likely this kind of nefarious activity will become more common, while scamming of investors could wane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers so far are focusing on decentralized finance (DeFi) projects to steal crypto this year, a new report found, a reversal from 2021 when they used scams and online fraud for most of their exploits. So far, investors have lost over $1.22 billion to hackers in the first three months of the year, nearly eight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}