Multiple blockchain intelligence firms have linked this week's $6.3 billion hack of leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance to a North Korean hacking group, in what has been described as the largest crypto...
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- TRM Labs and Chainalysis have both attributed the attack to TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking unit previouslyidentifiedby the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as being responsible for the $1.5 billion Bybit cryptocurrency theft in February 2025.
- On Thursday, an attacker moved approximately $6.36 billion from Binance hot wallets across nearly a dozen blockchains, with most of the transfers occurring within roughly 20 minutes, TRM Labssharedonline.
- The British blockchain analytics firm Elliptic alsosaidNorth Korea-linked actors were likely behind the theft but did not name TraderTraitor directly.
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