Greece records the first cryptocurrency confiscation in connection with North Korea's 1.5 billion dollar Bybit-Hack
Greek authorities carried out the country's first cryptocurrency confiscation and blocked the access to money that comes from the record stand in February. 1.5 billion US dollars bybit Hack, which is connected to the North Korean Lazarus Group.
The Greek anti-money laundering authority pursued a suspicious transaction to a wallet that connected the on-chain data with the original theft. This wallet, according to the Greek Minister of Economics and Finance Kyriakos Pierrakakis, was bound To a “Greek platform that offers stock exchange services.”
Analysts, according to a Blog postUsed Chainalysis Reactor to map the flow of money and “a clear connection between the cryptocurrency in the wallet of the suspicious user and the main wallet used in the Bybit hack,” adds the contribution.
The evidence made it possible for the authority to enact a container order in order to freeze the assets before they could disappear. According to Pierrakakis, the operations of the Hellenische Money Laundering Authority have to return around 10 million euros ($ 11.7 million) contributed to the victims. It is unclear whether one of these returns is connected to the latest confiscation.
In the past, the hackers have moved funds via mixers such as Wasabi and Tornado Cash, Cross-Chain bridges and peer-to-peer platforms.
Bybit's public LazarusBounty The dashboard suggests that around $ 72 million, 5 % of the stolen ether, have now been frozen, while a third is still traceable. According to the dashboard, around $ 870 million stolen by Bybit are now “disappeared” (go dark).
