PANews reported on October 7 that according to The Block, the U.S. Department of Justice has frozen $2.67 million worth of cryptocurrency related to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group. According to the U.S. government, these funds were successfully tracked through mixers such as Tornado Cash and frozen during the money laundering process of North Korean hackers, including Tether worth about $1.7 million recovered from the Deribit hack in November 2022, and Avalanche bridge Bitcoin BTC.b worth about $970,000 recovered from the Stake.com hack in September 2023.