Key Highlights: Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs and the FBI have attributed the largest cyber theft in cryptocurrency history to the North Korean state-backed hacking unit TraderTraitor. Binance committed more than $6.34 billion from its internal reserves to fully back user assets as the broader ecosystem worked swiftly to freeze between $2.7 billion and $3 ...
Key Highlights: The FBI attributed a massive $6.4 billion cryptocurrency cyberattack to TraderTraitor, an outfit tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, while U.S. President Donald Trump noted investigators are still examining direct links. Binance revealed the breach originated from a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, leading to unauthorized withdrawals across ten blockchains, though cold storage private ...
Key Highlights On-chain investigator ZachXBT has flagged 11 wallet addresses tied to a suspected exploit resulting in an estimated $106 million in stolen crypto assets. Differences in laundering patterns—specifically involving assets such as Ethereum and privacy coin Monero alongside centralized stablecoins—suggest the incident was not executed by North Korea’s Lazarus Group. Neither the affected organization ...
Key Highlights Binance suffered a massive $6.4 billion security breach on Thursday, which blockchain analysts attribute to North Korea’s TraderTraitor, a division of the Lazarus Group. Stablecoin issuers quickly intervened to freeze more than $2.4 billion in illicit assets, while Binance replenished 90% of the drained crypto assets and slated withdrawal resumptions for Sunday. Chainalysis ...
Key Highlights CertiK recorded $2.68 billion in gross crypto security losses in 2026, with five incidents accounting for almost 59% of the total. Bitget’s $387.5 million breach was the year’s largest reported crypto incident, while Bitget and Liquid Network together contributed about $706 million in losses. Elliptic said suspected North Korean hackers stole more than ...
Key Highlights On-chain data indicates a potential exploit at cryptocurrency exchange Bitget, with over $170 million in assets moved from three hot wallets and one cold wallet across multiple networks, primarily converted to Ethereum ($ETH). An attacker address on Arbitrum acquired 7,111 $ETH in six minutes using approximately 19.67 million USDT0 via UniswapX and 1inch ...
Kraken said compliance is central to its operations and that it uses blockchain analytics partnerships to monitor onchain activity and block assets linked to sanctioned…
Wallets linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group have sold more than $30 million worth of Bitcoin through Hyperliquid over the past three weeks, converting the…
Bitcoin wallets linked to the North Korean hacking group Lazarus transferred 244.148 BTC worth approximately $19.42 million, renewing attention on the group’s ongoing cryptocurrency activity….