US Officials Tie North Korean Hacker Group to Axie's Ronin Exploit

From coindesk.com

The U.S. Treasury Department alleged that North Korean hacking group Lazarus is tied to a more-than-$600 million theft of cryptocurrency from the Axie Infinity-linked Ronin bridge. The Treasury Department added an Ethereum address to its sanctions list on Thursday. Wallet profiler Nansen had labeled the sanctioned address as a “Ronin Bridge Exploiter” when checked by CoinDesk Thursday. It held 148,000 ETH at publication time. CoinDesk independently confirmed that the wallet is tied to the Ronin exploit. Crypto analytics firm Chainalysis tweeted that the address “was involved in the Ronin hack.” Ronin, a ... (full story)