Odaily News According to the FBI announcement, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a security bulletin (PSA) confirming that the North Korean hacker group was responsible for the theft of about $1.5 billion in digital assets from the Bybit exchange. The FBI said that the hacker group acted quickly and had converted some of the stolen assets into Bitcoin and other digital assets and dispersed them to thousands of addresses on multiple blockchains. It is expected that these assets will be further laundered and eventually converted into legal tender.
To prevent the circulation of stolen assets, the FBI specifically urged various participants in the cryptocurrency ecosystem to take action, including RPC node operators, exchange platforms, cross-chain bridge services, blockchain analysis companies, decentralized financial services, and other virtual asset service providers, to comprehensively block all transactions related to or originating from addresses used by hackers to launder money.