Lazarus News

Despite being blacklisted by OFAC, the Tornado Cash mixer continues to operate, helping North Korea-linked hackers in laundering millions of stolen crypto. The DPRK-affiliated hacking group Lazarus Group successfully laundered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Ethereum (ETH) stolen…

Web3 security experts consider North Korea’s Lazarus Group the most prominent and sophisticated threat to the crypto industry in 2024.

The Lazarus Group, known for its cybercriminal activities, has shifted its focus to Garantex, an OFAC-sanctioned exchange, to trade stolen assets for bitcoin (BTC). 

The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed strict sanctions on “Lazarus,” “Bluenoroff,” and “Andariel,” three North Korean state-run hacking groups that have allegedly hacked several bitcoin trading venues, banks and other financial…

Although there have been over $882 million cryptocurrencies stolen from online exchanges since 2017, Lazarus, a North Korean, state-sponsored group is responsible for the majority of stolen tokens. According to an article published by The Next Web on October 19,…

Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has discovered a new type of malware that poses as a legitimate trading app but is capable of wreaking havoc and goes undetected after infecting the host machine. The perpetrators are believed to…