The hackers who plundered $305 million worth of Bitcoin from a Japanese crypto exchange earlier this year are moving their BTC.
In May, the Japanese trading platform DMM Bitcoin lost 4,502.9 BTC in what the crypto investigative firm Chainalysis called “the seventh-largest crypto hack ever.”
The blockchain security firm PeckShield says wallets associated with the hackers moved roughly 850 BTC worth more than $54 million to six different addresses this week.
The cybercriminals, who on-chain sleuths suspect could be linked to the North Korean hacking outfit known as the Lazarus Group, likely used one of two methods to loot the funds, according to the crypto security company Beosin.
“1. A traditional exchange attack. The signature service of DMM Bitcoin is attacked or the multi-sig private key
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