{"id":18466,"date":"2025-02-27T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T06:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=18466"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T06:42:36","slug":"north-korea-behind-1-5-billion-crypto-theft-fbi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/north-korea-behind-1-5-billion-crypto-theft-fbi-says\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea behind $1.5 billion crypto theft, FBI says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday accused North Korea of being behind the theft of $1.5 billion worth of digital assets last week, the largest crypto heist in history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(North Korea) was responsible for the theft of approximately $1.5 billion USD in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange, Bybit,&#8221; the FBI said in a public service announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau said a group called TraderTraitor, also known as the Lazarus Group, was behind the theft.<\/p>\n<p>It said they were &#8220;proceeding rapidly and have converted some of the stolen assets to Bitcoin and other virtual assets dispersed across thousands of addresses on multiple blockchains&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is expected these assets will be further laundered and eventually converted to fiat currency,&#8221; the FBI added.<\/p>\n<p>Lazarus Group gained notoriety a decade ago when it was accused of hacking into Sony Pictures as revenge for &#8220;The Interview,&#8221; a film that mocked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea&#8217;s cyber-warfare program dates back to at least the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<p>It has since grown to a 6,000-strong cyber-warfare unit known as Bureau 121 that operates from several countries, according to a 2020 US military report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday accused North Korea of being behind the theft of $1.5 billion worth of digital assets last week, the largest crypto heist in history. &#8220;(North Korea) was responsible for the theft of approximately $1.5 billion USD in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange, Bybit,&#8221; the FBI said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18468,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18466\/revisions\/18468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}