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#North Korea Cyberattacks

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Coins•6h ago

FBI Confirms North Korea Linked to $6B Binance Hack, Urges DeFi to Block Crypto Addresses

Key Highlights Binance suffered a massive $6.4 billion security breach on Thursday, which blockchain analysts attribute to North Korea’s TraderTraitor, a division of the Lazarus Group. Stablecoin issuers quickly intervened to freeze more than $2.4 billion in illicit assets, while Binance replenished 90% of the drained crypto assets and slated withdrawal resumptions for Sunday. Chainalysis ...

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Coins•Sep 18, 2026

Japan, US, Australia, and Germany Attribute Crypto Thefts to North Korea’s WaterPlum Group

Key Highlights Japan, the United States, Australia, and Germany jointly attributed a global crypto-theft campaign to WaterPlum, a North Korea-backed group also known as Contagious Interview, on September 18. The campaign infected at least 30,000 machines across more than 100 countries, stole roughly 7,000 crypto wallet records, and moved an estimated 1.7 billion yen (about ...

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