
Foreword
Slow Fog Technology released the “Blockchain Safety and Anti -Money Laundering Report in the First Half of 2024” (hereinafter referred to as the “Report”). This report summarizes the key regulatory compliance policies and dynamics of the blockchain industry in the first halfCryptocurrency’s multi -angle regulatory position and a series of core policy adjustments.We reviewed and summarized the safety incident and anti -money laundering trend in the first half of 2024, and interpreted some common money laundering tools and fishing theft skills, and put forward effective prevention methods and response strategies for such issues.EssenceIn addition, we also disclosed and analyzed the main fishing criminal organization Wallet Drainers and hacker Lazarus Group to provide reference to preventing such threats.
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1. 1. Background
According to COINMARKETCAP data, as of June 30, 2024, the total market value of the global cryptocurrency market has reached approximately 2.34 trillion US dollars, which fully demonstrates that the growth momentum of the global blockchain market is becoming more and more powerful.However, with its development momentum, the security of the blockchain is facing increasingly severe challenges.While the application of the blockchain is expanding and in -depth, the attackers have become more and more smart and complex. They continue to attack and use the vulnerabilities of the blockchain system to attack, resulting in huge losses.
In this context, this report focuses on the two aspects of the security of the blockchain ecosystem and anti -money laundering (AML) security, so that everyone has a comprehensive understanding of the current and future blockchain security risks.
Second, blockchain security situation
2.1 Blockchain Security Incident Total Review
According to the incomplete statistics of the Slowmist Hacked of the Slow Mist Blockchain, there were 223 security incidents in the first half of 2024, with a loss of US $ 1.43 billion.Compared with the first half of 2023 (a total of 185 cases, the loss was about 920 million US dollars), the loss rose 55.43%year -on -year.(Note: This report has not included personal losses into statistics)
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From ecology, Ethereum has the highest loss to $ 400 million.Followed by Arbitrum, about $ 72.46 million, and BLAST, about 70 million US dollars.In addition, BSC has the most security incidents, reaching 57 cases, and loss of about 32.12 million US dollars.
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From the perspective of the project track, DEFI is the most often attacked field.In the first half of 2024, there were 158 DEFI type security incidents, accounting for 70.85%of the total incident, and the loss was as high as US $ 659 million. Compared with the first half of 2023 (a total of 111 cases, the loss was about 480 million US dollars), the loss increased by 37.29%year -on -year.Secondly, the loss of security incidents on the trading platform was as high as US $ 524 million, of which the DMM Bitcoin incident accounted for US $ 305 million. The incident was also the largest security incident in the first half of 2024.
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From the perspective of losses, the scale of the two incidents reached hundreds of millions of dollars. The following is a security attack event that lost TOP 10 in the first half of 2024:
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From the perspective of security incidents, the contract vulnerability incidents were the most, reaching 56, and the loss was about 104 million US dollars.The second is the security incident caused by running.
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2.2 Fishing/theft
This section picks up some fishing and theft methods disclosed by Slowmist in the first half of 2024:
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The same first tail fishing
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Malicious extension procedure
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Malicious Trojan Program
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Mysterious bookmark fishing
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Signature authorized fishing
3. Anti -money laundering situation
3.1 Anti -money laundering and regulatory dynamics
This section will focus on the major progress of anti -money laundering (AML) and regulatory dynamics in the cryptocurrency field:
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Chinese court
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Hong Kong, China
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Singapore
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US supervision
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European Parlia
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Middle East
3.2 Anti -money laundering of security incidents
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Fund frozen data
Tether: In the first half of 2024, a total of 374 ETH addresses were blocked. The USDT-ERC20 assets on these addresses were frozen and cannot be transferred.
Circle: In the first half of 2024, a total of 28 ETH addresses were blocked. The USDC-ERC20 funds on these addresses were frozen and cannot be transferred.
With the strong support of Slow Mist Intelligence Network Partners, Slowmist in the first half of 2024 assisted customers, partners and publicly frozen funds to be frozen by about $ 24.39 million.
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Fund return data
In the first half of 2024, there were 16 incidents that could still be recovered all or partially after being attacked.Among these 16 incidents, the a total of about $ 113 million in stolen funds, of which nearly 98.64 million US dollars were returned, accounting for 87.3%of the stolen funds.
3.3 portrait portrait portrait and dynamics
This section analyzes the crime method of hacker Lazarus Group and fishing service Drainers.
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Lazarus group
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Drawers
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3.4 Money laundering tool
In this section, the money laundering tools Tornado Cash and EXCH have analyzed statistical analysis.
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(TORNADO CASH: https://dune.com/misttrack/first-hlf- -2024-stats)
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(Exch: https://dune.com/misttrack/first-hlf–2024-stats)
Fourth, write at the end
In general, we hope that this report can provide readers with an analysis and interpretation of the security status of the blockchain industry, help readers more comprehensively understand the security and anti -money laundering status of the blockchain industry, and to promote the blockchain ecologySafe development contributes a force.
Finally, thanks for every ecological partner.This includes our service customers, media partners, black manual contributors, and slow fog partners.It is your determination to help us continue to make progress and continue to make the guardian of the blockchain. I hope that we will continue to work hard and work side by side to bring more light to the blockchain black dark forest.
Exempt statement
The content of this report is based on our understanding of the blockchain industry, the slow fog blockchain is supported by the data of the black archive library Slowmist Hacked and the anti -money laundering tracking system Misttrack.However, due to the “anonymous” characteristics of the blockchain, we cannot guarantee the absolute accuracy of all data here, nor can we bear the losses caused by errors, omissions, or use of the loss caused by this report.At the same time, this report does not constitute a basis for any investment suggestions or other analysis.
If there is any omissions and deficiencies in this report, everyone is welcome to criticize and correct it.
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