Hacked Crypto Exchange Bybit offers $ 140 million wealth to track the stolen funds
Last week, The hackers stole about $ 1.4 billion in Ethereum cryptocurrency by Crypto Exchange Bybitwhich is thought to be the largest cryptocurrency in history. The company is now offering a total of $ 140 million for anyone who can help track and freeze the stolen funds.
Bybib CEO and co -founder Ben Zhou ads bounty In a post of X on Tuesday.
On The Bounty’s official websiteBybit explains that every time someone tracks and freezes some of the stolen funds, 5% of that amount goes to the person who has found them, and 5% for the “enterprise” who froze that he said funds.
During the writing, thanks to five head hunters, Bybib has already awarded $ 4.23 million to bonuses, according to a site whose logo is a knife that seems to stab through the head of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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“We will not stop until Lazar or bad industry participants are eliminated. In the future, we will open it to other victims of Lazarus, “Zhou wrote, referring to Lazarus GroupThe name that the cybersecurity industry has assigned to a wide group of North Korean -backed hackers, to a large extent on cryptocurrency thefts.
Numerous Security Researchers and Cryptocurrency and Monitoring Companies Believe the hackers behind Bybit’s massive work for the North Korean governmentwhich over the years has become very effective in targeting cryptocurrencies and Web3 companies, stealing $ 650 million in cryptocurrency in 2024 alone, According to the United States, Japan and South Korea governmentsS
On Wednesday, Zhou on bybit publishes preliminary results From the forensic investigation of the hack, led by two companies, Sygnia Labs and Verichains. Sygnia concluded that the “root cause” of the attack is a malicious code coming from the infrastructure of SafewalletCrypto portfolio platform. Verichains said the benign JavaScript file was replaced by a malicious version “specially targeted at Ethereum MultiSig Cold Wallet on bybib.”
The two investigative security companies have come to the conclusion that hackers have violated the developer’s device at Safewallet, such as The company itself confirmedS
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