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DeFi saw over $60 billion wiped out in 2022 but September saw a continued downtrend in recorded losses
Liam 'Akiba' Wright 3 min read 
The Nomad Bridge and Wintermute hacks account for 79.85% — $350 million — of all recorded losses.
Joint efforts of top security firms have lead to the hacker returning 70% of the $21 million stolen from Transit Swap's smart contract exploit.
A standard M1 Macbook with 32GB of RAM was able to crack the Wintermute private key in less than 48 hours
The hacker got the bot to approve his transaction and moved all the funds to another address.
Ethereum developers discovered a bug that could lead to EVM chains becoming stuck due to an excess gas error in the Besu client.
The white hat hacker believes his discovery deserves the full $2 million max bounty reward instead of only 400 ETH.
It may take less than 2 months to brute force hack an Ethereum vanity address using a GPU mining rig.
Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy said the firm's Cefi and OTC operations were not affected by the hack.
