North Korea was behind the Crypto hack of $ 1.5 billion: FBI

• North Korea was behind the Crypto hack of $ 1.5 billion, FBI said.
• The virtual assets were stolen from the exchange of cryptocurrency based in Dubai earlier this month.
• It is believed to be the largest digital history in history.

North Korea was probably behind the theft of $ 1.5 billion in virtual assets since the exchange of cryptocurrency based in Dubai, according to the FBI.

Said that A North -Corean group called a traderatorWhich is also called the Lazarus group, was behind the hack.

Last Friday, Bybit said hackers took control of a wallet used to store Ethereum and transferred its content to another address.

Ben Zhou, the Bybit CEO, said that the hack affected about 401,000 Ethereum and took place while the company tried a routine transfer from a cold wallet -an offline storage system -in a hot wallet used for daily trading.

“Unfortunately, this transaction was manipulated by a sophisticated attack that masked the signing interface, displaying the correct address while modifying the logic of basic intelligent contracts,” the company said in a post from X.

On Wednesday, the FBI said that the traitor actors “were fast and transformed some of the stolen assets in Bitcoin and other virtual assets dispersed on thousands of addresses on multiple blockchain.”

“These assets are expected to be washed further and, finally, transformed into Fiat currency,” he added.

He also asked the private sector to help the transactions in the addresses associated with the trader.

Blockchain investigations TRM companies He described the hack as “the biggest exploitation in the recording” and said that, with a “high degree of confidence”, he thought that North Korea was behind theft.

“This evaluation is based on substantial overlaps observed between the addresses controlled by the bybit hackers and those related to the previous theft in North Korea,” he said.

Bybit is one of the largest crypto shifts in the world.

Jake Moore, Cibersecurita counselor in the UK, told BI that the attack exposed vulnerabilities in cryptocurrency security, especially storage systems.

“The level of coordination of this attack indicates a largely large and well -known group to get this,” he said.

In a post on XZhou from Bybit has shared the FBI ad, as well as a link to a site that offers a $ 140 million reward for help in tracking and freezing stolen assets.

North Korea has been behind a series of cyber attacks and online outings in recent years, with security experts saying them as a source of funds so needed to increase their economy.

“Due to the support and governmental direction, cyber attacks have become a flourishing” field “in North Korea, both for the classic espionage and to supplement its serious finances”, the Cyber ​​Security Company NCC Group said in a report from 2022.