1. Hackers linked to North Korea have stolen over $200 million in cryptocurrency in 2023, accounting for over 20% of all stolen #crypto this year, according to a report by TRM Labs.
2. The hackers have stolen more than $2 billion in #cryptocurrency over the last five years, with last year being the most successful year for them, with over $800 million stolen.
3. North Korean hackers use various techniques to launder stolen funds, including chain hopping and mixers, favoring the Sinbad mixing service.
4. Hackers targeted Atomic #Wallet users in June, stealing around $100 million in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, XRP, Stellar, Dogecoin, and Litecoin. They used various methods to obfuscate the stolen coins.
5. TRM Labs emphasizes the importance of robust cybersecurity, recommending hardware security modules, whitelisting addresses, and secure offline storage for cryptographic key management.
6. Peck Shield, Chainalysis, Nansen, Elliptic, and CipherTrace are other blockchain investigation companies involved in tracking and analyzing cryptocurrency-related cybercrime.
7. Another recent attack targeted the Exactly protocol on the Optimism network, resulting in the theft of 4323.6 ETH (around $7.2 million) from the credit market.