North Korean hackers earn hundreds of millions of $ 1.5 billion. Hack Bybit

Hackers are believed to work in North Korean mode, successfully paid at least $ 300 million (232 million pounds) from their record crypto cry of $ 1.5 billion.

Criminals known as Lazarus Groun Two weeks ago.

Since then, it has been a game with a cat and a mouse to track and block the hackers successfully convert the crystand into useful money.

Experts say a sad -known hacking team works almost 24 hours a day – potentially directing money to the military development of the regime.

“Every minute it matters to hackers trying to confuse the cash trail, and they are extremely difficult in what they do,” says Dr. Tom Robinson, co-founder of the cryo-investigators.

D -R Robinson says that of all criminal subjects involved in the crypto.

“I think they have a whole room of people who do it using automated tools and perennial experiences. We also see them from their activities that they only do a few hours break every day, perhaps working in changes, so that the crystore turns into cash.”

Ellip Talles Analysis of Bybit, which states that 20% of the funds “went darken”, that means that this is unlikely to be restored.

The United States and allies have accused the Northern Koreans of holding dozens of hacks in recent years of financing military and nuclear development of the regime.

On February 21, the criminals hacked one of the Bybit providers to secretly change the digital wallet address, to which 401,000 crystals were sent.

Bybit thought it was a transfer of funds to its digital wallet, but instead sent it all hackers.

Ben Zhou, CEO of Bybit, assured the customers that none of their funds had been accepted.

Since then, the firm has supplemented the stolen coins with investors’ loans, but, according to Zhou, “waging war on Lazar”.

The Bounty Bounty Bybit Bounty Bounty program encourages public members to trace the stolen funds and make them freeze where possible.

All crypto -transactions are displayed on a public blockchain, so you can track money if they are moved by Lazarus.

If hackers try to take advantage of the basic cryptor -service to try to turn coins into ordinary money, like dollars, the coin crying can be frozen by the company if they think they are related to the crime.

So far, 20 people have shared more than $ 4 million for successful detection of $ 40 million stolen money and warning the crypto -films to block transfers.

But experts are down about the chances of restoring the rest, given the North Korean examination in hacking and money laundering.

“North Korea is a very closed system and a closed economy, so they created a successful branch for hacking and laundering, and they do not care about a negative impression of cyber -cuts,” said Dr. Dorit of Chape Security Company Point.

Another problem is that not all krypto -companies are as ready to help as others.

Crypto exchange is accused of Bybit and others that they do not stop hitting criminals.

More than $ 90 million has been successfully aimed at this exchange.

But by e -mail, the elusive owner Exch – Johann Roberts – disputed it.

He admits that he initially did not stop the funds because his company is in a long dispute with Bybit, and he says his team was not sure that the coins were certainly out of hacking.

He says he is currently cooperating, but claims that the main companies that identify cryptocurrency are abandoning the private and anonymous preferences of the crystance.

North Korea has never confessed that he remains behind the Lazarus group, but it is believed that the only country in the world, using its hacking powers for financial benefits.

Earlier, Lazarus Group hackers sent banks to banks, but in the last five years specialized in the attack on cryptocurrency campaigns.

Industry is less well protected by fewer mechanisms to stop their money laundering.

The last khaki associated with North Korea include:

• Hack on Utbit 2019 for $ 41 million
• Theft crypto stolen $ 275 million from Kukoin (Most of the funds were restored)
• Ronin Bridge Attack 2022, which sides of hackers from $ 600 million in cry
• Approximately $ 100 million in Krypto was stolen as a result of an attack on an atomic wallet in 2023

In 2020, the United States added the North Koreans accused of participating in the Lazarus group in its cyber -welcome list. But the chances of people who, when they arrested, are extremely small, if they do not leave their country.