Harmony attackers try to wash another $ 27 million

Harmony attackers try to wash another $ 27 million

late last night, the attackers tried to pay a further load of their illegal ETH profits in June 2022 late last night.

After the 41,000 ETH, which were washed over Tornadocash and Railgun two weeks ago and had a value of around 63.5 million at the time, the North Korean Lazarus group made an attempt to wash another $ 27.7 million.

intercepted by stock exchanges

The attempt was not as successful as the last. Practically all ETH washed two weeks ago were paid out by unnamed stock exchanges. This time the security teams used were reported to freeze most of the funds.

It is due to the stock exchanges to share exactly how much the 17,278 was frozen in ETH.

The blockchain security researcher ZachxBT originally raised the alarm on Twitter and published evidence that $ 17.7 million were moved by the two mixed tools and on stock exchanges.

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The DVRK has just washed another $ 17.7 million from the Harmony Bridge Hack.

s/o to the stock exchanges that react quickly on a weekend so that funds could be frozen. pic.twitter.com/suyuschr4n

-zachxbt (@zachxbt) . January 2023

The original tweet was followed up when Zach discovered another address, which ETH was worth $ 10 million, which increased the total number of addresses used before the consolidation.

status of the means unclear

In the previous money laundering round, a large part of the harmony money was converted into BTC, whereby an unp opened amount was frozen and confiscated by the FBI.

"With our investigation we were able to confirm that the Lazarus Group […] are responsible for the theft of virtual currency worth $ 100 million from the Harmony’s Horizon Bridge on June 24, 2022. Ballistic rockets and weapons of mass destruction are used. ”

The percentage of funds frozen by crypto stock exchange security team seems to be much larger this time. What happens to them is still determined. It is possible that they will be returned to Harmony to make users healthy again.

The news of intercepting was welcomed by the crypto community, and many praised both Zach and the security teams of the nameless stock exchanges for keeping guard in the early morning hours of a weekend night.

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