{"id":152098,"date":"2023-09-08T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T08:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=152098"},"modified":"2023-09-08T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T08:37:36","slug":"north-korean-hackers-stole-us41-million-from-gambling-site-fbi-says-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/north-korean-hackers-stole-us41-million-from-gambling-site-fbi-says-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean hackers stole US$41 million from gambling site, FBI says &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>North Korea-backed hacker organization Lazarus Group was behind the US$41 million hack of online crypto gambling platform Stake.com on Monday, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See related article:<\/em><\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/tornado-cash-founder-charged-north-korea\/\">Tornado Cash founders charged with money laundering crypto, including proceeds from North Korean heists<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fast facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The stolen crypto assets were moved from Stake.com\u2019s Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), and Polygon networks to 33 different addresses, according to the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/press-releases\/fbi-identifies-lazarus-group-cyber-actors-as-responsible-for-theft-of-41-million-from-stakecom\">FBI<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The FBI said hackers from the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have stolen over US$200 million of digital currencies this year, including funds <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/tornado-cash-founder-charged-north-korea\/\">siphoned off<\/a> Alphapo and CoinsPaid crypto platforms earlier this year.<\/li>\n<li>U.S. authorities had said that funds stolen by DPRK-backed cyber actors are used to support North Korea\u2019s weapons programs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Lazarus Group previously used the now-sanctioned <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/tornado-cash-founder-charged-north-korea\/\">Tornado Cash<\/a> to move illicit funds. But after the sanctions, Lazarus utilized chain-hopping to launder some of the funds stolen from Ronin, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.chainalysis.com\/reports\/introducing-chainalysis-storyline\/\">Chainalysis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, the U.S., Japan and South Korea on Aug. 18 agreed to establish a trilateral working group to tackle North Korean cyberattacks as early as next month, according to South Korea\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/world.kbs.co.kr\/service\/news_view.htm?lang=e&amp;Seq_Code=179897\">KBS News<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>See related article:<\/em><\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/north-korea-hackers-eth-harmony-bridge-hack\/\">North Korean hackers move 41,000 ETH stolen from Harmony Bridge attack<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea-backed hacker organization Lazarus Group was behind the US$41 million hack of online crypto gambling platform Stake.com on Monday, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed in a statement Wednesday. See related article: Tornado Cash founders charged with money laundering crypto, including proceeds from North Korean heists Fast facts The stolen crypto assets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,251,246,257,255,250,252,247,253,249,256,254],"class_list":["post-152098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-safe-moon","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152101,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152098\/revisions\/152101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}