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North Korean Lazarus Group amasses over $40M in Bitcoin, data reveals

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North Korean hacking collective Lazarus Group holds a whopping $47 million in cryptocurrency, most of which is in Bitcoin (BTC), new information reveals. 

In response to information collated on Dune Analytics from 21.co — the guardian firm of 21Shares — wallets related to the Lazarus Group at present maintain round $47 million value of digital belongings, together with $42.5 million in Bitcoin, $1.9 million in Ether (ETH), $1.1 million in Binance Coin (BNB) and an extra $640,000 in stablecoins, primarily BUSD.

Nonetheless, the quantity of crypto held seems to have dropped from the $86 million the group held on Sept. 6, a number of days after the Stake.com hack wherein Lazarus was implicated.

The Dune dashboard tracks 295 wallets recognized by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Workplace of Overseas Property Management (OFAC) as being owned by the hacking group, it famous.

Lazarus Group crypto holdings. Supply: Dune Analytics

Surprisingly, the group doesn’t maintain any privateness cash reminiscent of Monero (XMR), Sprint, or Zcash (ZEC) that are arguably a lot tougher to hint.

In the meantime, Lazarus crypto wallets are nonetheless extremely lively with the newest transaction being recorded on September 20.

21.co additionally famous that the group’s holdings are more likely to be a lot increased than what has been reported. “We should always observe that this can be a lower-bound estimation of Lazarus Group’s crypto holdings primarily based on publicly obtainable info,” it said.

Associated: 3 steps crypto investors can take to avoid hacks by the Lazarus Group

On September 13, Cointelegraph reported that the Lazarus group carried out the assault on crypto alternate CoinEx, which misplaced not less than $55 million.

The FBI has additionally fingered Lazarus for the Alphapo, CoinsPaid, and Atomic Pockets hacks, which collectively added as much as greater than $200 million that the group stole in 2023.

Nonetheless, Chainalysis reported that crypto thefts by North Korea-linked hackers are down a whopping 80% from 2022. As of mid-September, North Korea-linked teams had stolen a complete of $340.4 million in crypto, down from a document $1.65 billion in pilfered digital belongings in 2022.

Late final week, United States federal authorities warned of “vital danger” for potential assaults on U.S. healthcare and public well being sector entities by the Lazarus Group.

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