COSMOS DEVELOPERS TO REMOVE NORTH KOREA-LINKED LIQUID STAKING MODULE
The Liquid Staking Module (LSM), created with the participation of North Korean programmers, will be removed from the Cosmos Hub. The team is currently exploring possible ways to do this, developer Jacob Gadikian said.
The day before, Cosmos co-founder Jae Kwon accused Iqlusion CEO Zaki Manian (the developer of LSM) of negligence based on an analysis from All in Bits.
As it turned out, Manian hid from the community that most of the code was written by North Korean programmers. He did not report this even after the FBI revealed their identities and warned the company.
In 2022, Oak Security conducted a security audit of the solution created by the Interchain Foundation (ICF) and identified critical vulnerabilities.
In April 2023, Iqlusion CEO announced the end of LSM, despite the issues not being fixed.