FBI links North Korea's TraderTraitor to $6.43 billion Binance crypto heist
Original title: FBI Links North Korea's TraderTraitor to Record $6.43 Billion Binance Crypto Heist
The FBI attributed a $6.43 billion cryptocurrency theft to North Korean group TraderTraitor, which used trojanized Terraform and malware like FLATROOF.
The FBI, US Secret Service, and IRS-CI linked TraderTraitor to stealing over $6.43 billion across 11 blockchains, primarily Ethereum and Bitcoin. The group used job-themed social engineering and trojanized Terraform providers to deploy FLATROOF backdoors and information stealers. Binance resumed withdrawals after security checks, with $2.85 billion frozen by exchanges.
Unconfirmed: Exact attribution to specific North Korean group
- $6.43 billion stolen
- Largest crypto theft on record
- Trojanized Terraform providers used
- FLATROOF backdoor deployed
- $2.85 billion frozen on-chain
Impact: theft of cryptocurrency assets
- Vendors
- Binance
- Products
- crypto exchange
- Malware
- FLATROOF
- Victims
- Binance users
- Countries
- North Korea
From the original article
3 min read at thehackernews.com
The U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets to TraderTraitor, a North Korea-aligned elite hacking group also tracked as Jade Sleet, Pressure Chollima, PUKCHONG, Slow Pisces, and UNC4899.
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