The DPRK’s TraderTraitor group, also known as Lazarus Group and APT38, is suspected of orchestrating the heists. Between Monday and Tuesday, the FBI has traced approximately 1580 stolen Bitcoins, valued at over $40m, which may soon be cashed out by North Korean actors.
The hackers were reportedly responsible for major crypto heists, including a $60m hit on Alphapo, a $37m breach of CoinsPaid and a $100m theft from Atomic Wallet.
FBI warns North Korean hackers looking to cash out stolen cryptocurrency worth millions - ...
The FBI is warning cryptocurrency companies to be on the lookout for North Korean cyber thieves cashing out stolen bitcoin valued in the tens of millions of dollars.
North Korean hackers use cybertheft to circumvent sanctions and fund their regime, with the White House estimating that half of North Korea ‘s missile program is funded via cryptocurrency heists and cyberattacks.
China-based hackers target dozens of Taiwanese organizations in espionage operation, Microsoft warns
Microsoft on Thursday attributed the campaign to a previously unidentified group it named Flax Typhoon.
"Flax Typhoon gains and maintains long-term access to Taiwanese organizations' networks with minimal use of malware, relying on tools built into the operating system, along with some normally benign software to quietly remain in these networks," the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
Hackers use public ManageEngine exploit to breach internet org
The North Korean state-backed hacker group tracked as Lazarus has been exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-47966) in Zoho's ManageEngine ServiceDesk to compromise an internet backbone infrastructure provider and healthcare organizations.
The campaigns started early this year and aimed at breaching entities in the U.S. and U.K. to deploy the QuiteRAT malware and a newly discovered remote access trojan (RAT) that researchers are calling CollectionRAT.
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