CoinVoice has recently learned that according to Cointelegraph, the US government filed two legal actions on October 4 to begin seizing digital assets worth more than $2.67 million stolen by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group.
According to legal documents, the U.S. government is seeking to recover approximately $1.7 million in USDT from a group that stole $28 million from the options exchange in the 2022 Deribit hack. After the hackers successfully hacked into the Deribit hot wallet, they mixed the funds through the Tornado Cash mixer and multiple Ethereum addresses.
U.S. law enforcement officials also applied to recover approximately $970,000 in Avalanche-bridged-Bitcoin (BTC.b) that was stolen after the Lazarus Group hacked the Stake.com gambling platform in 2023. The malicious attack caused Stake to lose more than $41 million. [Original link]