Security News > 2025 > February > Bybit Hack Traced to Safe{Wallet} Supply Chain Attack Exploited by North Korean Hackers
2025-02-27 07:15
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formally linked the record-breaking $1.5 billion Bybit hack to North Korean threat actors, as the company's CEO Ben Zhou declared a "war against Lazarus." The agency said the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of the virtual assets from the cryptocurrency exchange, attributing it to a specific cluster
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