Overview
- PeckShield tallied roughly 26 major exploits in December, with total losses down sharply from November’s $194.27 million.
- The largest incident was a $50 million address‑poisoning scam that tricked a user into sending funds to a lookalike address.
- A compromised private key tied to a multisignature wallet enabled about $27.3 million in losses.
- Browser‑based wallets remained a recurring target, including a $7 million Trust Wallet extension exploit and roughly $4 million drained in the Flow ecosystem.
- U.S. authorities charged a Brooklyn man in a separate $16 million phishing case impacting about 100 Coinbase users, highlighting persistent social‑engineering threats.