FBI accuses North Korean hackers of hacking $100 million Horizon bridge
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North Korean hackers Lazarus Group and APT38 were involved in the $100 million attack on the Horizon cross-chain bridge of the Harmony protocol in June 2022. This was reported in FBI. The agency linked the hack to a North Korean-run TraderTraitor malware campaign. The attackers tried to launder the stolen funds through the RAILGUN anonymizer. Of this amount, the FBI was able to freeze $60 million in agreement with unnamed virtual asset service providers. Law enforcers specified that North Korea is using the stolen funds to finance programs to create ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Recall that the
FBI confirms North Korean hackers stole $1.5B from Bybit, urging crypto firms to block transactions and prevent the laundering of stolen crypto. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a security advisory confirming that North Korean hackers were responsible for a massive cryptocurrency theft. The Bybit exchange became the…