Study: 94.4% of DeFi attack losses occurred outside audit scope
- —Total losses from 135 DeFi attacks reached $939.86 million
- —Audited projects lost $721.24 million, with $680.97 million outside audit scope
- —Excluding KelpDAO ($292 million) and Drift ($285 million), the out-of-scope share falls to 72.1%
- —In Icon Network, 2 signatures were reused 1,490 times, causing losses of 150.2 ETH and 31,204 USDC
Why it matters: Audits do not guarantee protection: investors should verify the code version, deployment address and components excluded from audits.
Source: TokenPost