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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed that Lazarus Group and APT38 were responsible for the $100 million Harmony Bridge hack in June 2022.
A North Korean-linked cyber group has long been suspected to be behind the attacks, but officials have so far not confirmed their involvement.
According to a January 23 statement, the FBI I got it Through our investigation, we were able to confirm that North Korea-linked cyber actors Lazarus Group and APT38 were involved in the theft of $100 million in cryptocurrency from Harmonys Horizon Bridge.
The 2022 Harmony Bridge hack was the result of a security hole in Harmony’s Horizon Ethereum bridge, allowing cyber attackers to steal a number of assets stored on the bridge via 11 transactions. I was.
The FBI also outlined that North Korean hackers began transferring about $60 million worth of stolen funds via the Ethereum-based privacy protocol RAILGUN earlier this month. His ZachXBT, a blockchain research firm, highlighted such on his Twitter on Jan. 16.
Binance also detected hackers attempting to launder money through the Huobi cryptocurrency exchange and quickly helped freeze and recover digital assets deposited by the hackers, said CEO Changpeng Zhao.
On Friday, January 13, 2023, North Korean cyber actors used the privacy protocol RAILGUN to launder more than $60 million in Ethereum (ETH) stolen in the June 2022 robbery. The FBI said, “Some of these worked with some virtual asset service providers to freeze the funds. The rest of the bitcoins were then moved to the following addresses.”
The FBI said in a statement that its Cyber and Virtual Assets Division, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Cryptographic Division, “continue to identify and disrupt the theft and laundering of cryptocurrencies by North Korea.” . North Korea’s ballistic missile and weapons of mass destruction programs.
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The Lazarus Group, a well-known hacking syndicate reportedly involved in a number of major exploits in the cryptocurrency industry, was allegedly behind the $600 million Ronin Bridge hack from last March. increase.
In April 2022, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control did so by updating Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) to include the Lazarus group following the hack.
That same month, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a warning alert about a North Korean state-sponsored cyberthreat targeting blockchain companies in response to the Ronin Bridge hack.
