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	"title": "FBI links largest crypto hack ever to North Korean hackers",
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	"plain_text": "FBI links largest crypto hack ever to North Korean hackers\r\nBy Sergiu Gatlan\r\nPublished: 2022-04-14 · Archived: 2026-04-05 20:16:02 UTC\r\nThe Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned the address that received the\r\ncryptocurrency stolen in the largest cryptocurrency hack ever, the hack of Axie Infinity's Ronin network bridge.\r\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said two North Korean hacking groups, Lazarus and BlueNorOff (aka APT38),\r\nwere behind last month's Ronin hack.\r\n\"Through our investigation, we were able to confirm Lazarus Group and APT38, cyber actors associated with the DPRK, are\r\nresponsible for the theft of $620 million in Ethereum reported on March 29th,\" the FBI said.\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-links-largest-crypto-hack-ever-to-north-korean-hackers/\r\nPage 1 of 4\n\n0:00\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-links-largest-crypto-hack-ever-to-north-korean-hackers/\r\nPage 2 of 4\n\nVisit Advertiser websiteGO TO PAGE\r\n\"The FBI, in coordination with Treasury and other U.S. Government partners, will continue to expose and combat the\r\nDPRK's use of illicit activities — including cybercrime and cryptocurrency theft — to generate revenue for the regime.\"\r\nETH address linked to Lazarus Group\r\nBlockchain data platform Chainalysis first spotted that a new ETH address added by OFAC to the SDN list as part of a\r\nLazarus Group update was also used in March to collect the ETH and USDC tokens stolen in the Ronin hack.\r\nRonin is an Ethereum sidechain developed by Sky Mavis to enable transactions for the Axie Infinity game, acting as a\r\nbridge for transferring ERC-20 tokens between the Ronin and Ethereum blockchains.\r\nOn March 29, Sky Mavis disclosed that the Ronin bridge was hacked, with 173,600 Ethereum and 25.5M USDC tokens\r\nstolen in two transactions [1 and 2], worth over $617 million.\r\nSky Mavis also published an update to their initial blog post disclosing the attack, saying the FBI now attributes the attack to\r\nthe North Korean-backed Lazarus Group hacking group.\r\n\"Today, the FBI attributed North Korea based Lazarus Group to the Ronin Validator Security Breach,\" Sky Mavis said today.\r\n\"The US Government, specifically the Treasury Department, has sanctioned the address that received the stolen funds.\"\r\n173,600 Ether transferred to Lazarus-controlled wallet (BleepingComputer)\r\nThis attack is the largest crypto hack in history, with the previous most significant theft of cryptocurrency being the $611\r\nmillion Poly Network hack from August 2021.\r\n\"Today, OFAC added a new ETH address to Lazarus Group’s SDN entry as an identifier:\r\n0x098B716B8Aaf21512996dC57EB0615e2383E2f96,\" Chainalysis revealed in a Twitter thread on Thursday.\r\n\"That address was involved in the Ronin hack, having received 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC from the Ronin\r\nBridge smart contract during the attack.\"\r\nNotorious North Korean threat group\r\nThe Lazarus Group (tracked as HIDDEN COBRA by the United States Intelligence Community) is a North Korean military\r\nhacking group active for more than a decade, since at least 2009.\r\nIts operators are linked to multiple high-profile hacks, including the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware campaign and\r\nattacks against Sony Films and various banks worldwide.\r\nGoogle also spotted the Lazarus Group's attempts to target security researchers in January 2021 and March 2021 as part of\r\ncomplex social engineering attacks.\r\nThey were also observed using the ThreatNeedle backdoor and the MATA malware framework against defense industry\r\nentities from over a dozen countries in cyber-espionage campaigns starting with early 2020.\r\nThe US Treasury sanctioned three DPRK-sponsored hacking groups (Lazarus, Bluenoroff, and Andariel) in September 2019.\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-links-largest-crypto-hack-ever-to-north-korean-hackers/\r\nPage 3 of 4\n\nThe US government also offers a reward of up to $5 million for tips on the DPRK hackers' malicious activity to help identify\r\nor locate them.\r\nUpdate: Added FBI statement.\r\nAutomated Pentesting Covers Only 1 of 6 Surfaces.\r\nAutomated pentesting proves the path exists. BAS proves whether your controls stop it. Most teams run one without the\r\nother.\r\nThis whitepaper maps six validation surfaces, shows where coverage ends, and provides practitioners with three diagnostic\r\nquestions for any tool evaluation.\r\nSource: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-links-largest-crypto-hack-ever-to-north-korean-hackers/\r\nhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-links-largest-crypto-hack-ever-to-north-korean-hackers/\r\nPage 4 of 4",
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