North Korean hackers were behind the theft of $100 million of cryptocurrency assets in 2022, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The federal agency announced on Tuesday that it was"able to confirm" that the North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group and APT38 were both involved in the hack of the Horizon Bridge, a tool for transferring digital assets from one type of blockchain to another, and had used it to steal more than $100 million from users.
While blockchain analytics firms had alleged that Lazarus had been involved in the hack, this is the first confirmation of North Korean involvement. The FBI said it intends to continue"to identify and disrupt North Korea's theft and laundering of virtual currency, which is used to support North Korea's ballistic missile and Weapons of Mass Destruction programs.
The Lazarus Group is a notorious hacker group blamed for several high-profile hacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures breach, distributed denial-of-service attacks against South Korean and U.S. websites in 2009, and a ransomware attack in 2017 against more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries. The group is considered a"state-sponsored hacking organization," according to the FBI.
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