Atomic Wallet hacker use Thorchain to hide $ 35 million

Atomic Wallet hacker use Thorchain to hide $ 35 million

After the hackers, who were targeting atomic wallet at the beginning of this month, with illegally acquired cryptocurrency worth 35 million US dollars, they have wiped their traces in the chain with the chain.

• according to the crypto tracking platform In the last two days 503 Ether (Eth) transferred to Thorchain.
• These funds were then exchanged for Bitcoin (BTC) and transferred to a Bitcoin address. In addition, a large part of the stolen ETH was converted into BTC using the SWFT blockchain.

according to $ eth to @thorchain In the last two days and exchange for $ BTC then bridges to the BTC address (BC1Q ... K2XM). pic.twitter.com/y0n7uptxg7

- Misttrack🕵️ (@Misttrack_io) 20. June 2023

• on-chain detective zachxBT estimated This month, atomic over 35 million US dollar lost after They had received numerous reports from users who claimed that their money had been used up. The stolen Assets included BTC, ETH, Tether (USDT), Dogecoin (Doge), Litecoin (LTC) and BNB Coin (BNB) and Polygon (Matic).
• The blockchain analysis company Elliptic later linked the North Korean hacker group Lazarus to the theft after funds were stolen Style = "Font-Weight: 400"> About Sinbad.io-A Coin Mixer used by the group.
• The following week, hacker transmit Some of the stolen estate values were given to the Russian crypto exchange, which of Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioned by the US Ministry of Finance. Previously, Hacker used 1inch to exchange their assets for USDT.
• Hacker of the Lazarus Group have used multiple chain-hopping to hurt money. After the 600 million dollar hack of the Ronin Bridge last year, the group used the Ren protocol and other CEXs to transmit its stolen assets to Bitcoin.

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