In 2017, through fraud and phishing, $ 220 million of crypto-currency was stolen, experts from Chainalysis. Fraudsters cheated convince traders and investors to send money to various addresses that were masked for various elements of the blocking Ethereum.

In 2017, more than 30 thousand. potential investors suffered and lost their money due to Ethereum-related cybercrime, while the amount of investment in the procedures for the initial placement of coins (ICO) was about $ 1.

6 billion.

Scammers created various accounts on social networks, web sites, posted messages on Twitter and organized phishing campaigns to steal funds.

In some cases, attackers exploited vulnerabilities in projects. For example, exploiting a vulnerability in the DAO project system (a decentralized autonomous organization designed to support projects related to Ethereum), cybercriminals were able to abduct a crypto currency of about $ 55 million.