The FBI has confirmed in a statement that the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group
stole
$100M from the Harmony protocol in a 2022 cyberattack.
The FBI has published several wallet addresses where the stolen funds were held.
- Harmony is a bridge protocol used by cryptocurrency company Horizon. This technology is mainly used as a blockchain platform for peer-to-peer lending.
- In June 2022, Horizon announced that unknown threat actors had stolen $100M worth of cryptocurrency from its platform.
- The FBI has now confirmed that Lazarus Group is behind this breach. According to the bureau, hackers converted a portion of the stolen cryptocurrenciesinto Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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The threat actors moved the now-frozenassets to the following addresses:
- 1BK769SseNefb6fe9QuFEi8W4KGbtP8gi3
- 15FcqYRbwh2JsRUyBjvZ4jJ2XAD3pycGch
- 1HwSof6jnbMFpfrRRa2jvydYdopkkGB4Sn
- 15emeZ7buVegqhYh9PekH7cwFEJcCeVNpS
- 3MSbCJCYtx5sj1nkzD4AMEhhvvviXBc8XJ
- 17Z79rZpkk8kUiJseg5aELwYKaoLnirMUn
- bc1qp2vvntdedxw4xwtyd4y3gc2t9ufk6pwz2ga4ge
- 3P9WebHkiDxCi8LDXiRQp8atNEagcQeRA3
- 37fnBxofDeph2fpBZxZKypNkwdXAt9nT6F
- 185NxhFAmKZrdwn9rVga3kqbvDP4FkbTNw
- 12283Cq1pJ3f1gXwqi6K3bRf5LZb8Bkm6g
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Lazarus Group is known for breaching cryptocurrency companies. The group is responsible for stealing
$625M
from Axie Infinity, a popular cryptocurrency-based game. This attack is the largest in the history of the cryptocurrency industry.
- Stolen funds from North Korea-backed hacker groups are believed to be used by the North Korean government to support its various military operations
