PANews reported on January 3 that blockchain auditing company CertiK said that approximately $3.7 billion was lost in scams and hacker attacks in 2022, making it the worst year for malicious activity in market history so far. In December, $62 million worth of tokens were stolen, scammed, or attacked, making it the month with the least amount of money lost to malicious activity in 2022. In contrast, CertiK recorded more than $595 million worth of encryption-based attacks in November.
