North Korean Hackers Were Behind Crypto’s Largest ‘Theft of All Time’


Blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence said North Korea’s Lazarus Group was behind Bybit’s $1.46 billion hack. In an earlier post on social media platform X, Arkham offered a bounty of 50,000 ARKM tokens for anyone who could identify the attackers for Friday’s hack.

Later, the platform said onchain sleuth ZachXBT submitted “definitive proof” that the attackers were the North Korean hacker group. “His submission included a detailed analysis of test transactions and connected wallets used ahead of the exploit, as well as multiple forensics graphs and timing analyses,” the post said.

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Source: Coindesk News


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