FBI confirms North Korea's role in $6 billion Binance hack, asks DeFi community to block BTC, ETH, SOL addresses
Source: CoinDesk ·
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While the FBI listed hundreds of addresses in its notice, Chainalysis said the Binance attackers have already used "thousands addresses," and expects this number to continue growing. The U.S. FBI confirmed that North Korea’s TraderTraitor hacking group was behind last week’s theft of over $6 billion from Binance, asking the crypto community to block transactions from hundreds of addresses that at one point held funds from the hack. According to the Saturday statement, the hackers had been converting the stolen funds mainly into ether ETH $2,263.99 , and the FBI said it expects the hackers to use swap services and other decentralized finance (DeFi) tools to continue laundering the funds. “FBI, USSS, and IRS-CI are urging private sector entities including THORNode operators, RPC node operators, instant exchanges, DeFi services, blockchain analytics firms, and other virtual asset service providers to block transactions with or derived from addresses TraderTraitor actors are using to…