In a fresh move to curb North Korea’s covert cyber operations, the U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on two individuals and four entities accused of enabling malicious IT workers to penetrate American crypto firms. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on July 8 that it had sanctioned ...
Four North Korean nationals have been charged in Georgia with wire fraud and money laundering after allegedly infiltrating U.S. and Serbian blockchain companies as fake remote IT workers and stealing nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency, U.S. prosecutors revealed on Monday. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Kim Kwang ...
Kraken has exposed an elaborate infiltration attempt by a suspected North Korean hacker who posed as a job applicant for an engineering role, highlighting growing concerns over state-backed cyber threats in the digital asset industry. In a blog post, Kraken revealed how a seemingly routine recruitment process evolved into a ...
A subgroup of the North Korea-linked Lazarus hacker organization has been targeting unsuspecting users by setting up three fake crypto consulting companies. These shell companies, named BlockNovas, Angeloper Agency, and SoftGlide, are designed to distribute malware under the guise of job recruitment, according to a report from Silent Push, a ...
North Korea’s notorious hacker collective, Lazarus Group, has reportedly made a $2.51 million profit after selling 40.78 Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) acquired two years ago. Blockchain analytics platform SpotOnChain revealed that a wallet linked to Lazarus Group offloaded 40.778 WBTC—worth approximately $3.51 million—in exchange for 1,847 Ethereum (ETH). The sale took ...
North Korean-linked fraudulent tech workers are broadening their infiltration of blockchain firms beyond the United States, now targeting companies in the United Kingdom and Europe, according to a new report from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). Jamie Collier, an adviser at GTIG, revealed in an April 2 report that while ...
North Korea’s state-backed hacking group, Lazarus, has launched a fresh supply chain attack, injecting six malicious npm packages designed to steal credentials and exfiltrate cryptocurrency data. The campaign, uncovered by the Socket Research Team, leverages BeaverTail malware to infiltrate developers' systems and extract sensitive information. According to the researchers, the ...
South Korean authorities have identified North Korean hacker groups Lazarus and Andariel as responsible for the $50 million Upbit cryptocurrency hack in 2019. The stolen Ethereum, initially worth 58 billion won, has surged to around 1.47 trillion won due to rising crypto prices. On November 21, the National Investigation Headquarters ...
