{"id":139017,"date":"2022-05-06T18:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T23:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/us-sanctions-bitcoin-laundering-service-used-by-north-korean-hackers"},"modified":"2022-05-06T18:02:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T23:02:38","slug":"us-sanctions-bitcoin-laundering-service-used-by-north-korean-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/us-sanctions-bitcoin-laundering-service-used-by-north-korean-hackers","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions Bitcoin laundering service used by North Korean hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-sanctions-bitcoin-laundering-service-used-by-north-korean-hackers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Treasury today sanctioned cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io used last month by the North Korean-backed Lazarus hacking group to launder funds stolen from Axie Infinity\u2019s Ronin bridge.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the attack, Sky Mavis (the bridge\u2019s creator) revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/cryptocurrency\/620-million-in-crypto-stolen-from-axie-infinitys-ronin-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">hackers breached the Ronin bridge<\/a> on March 23 to steal 173,600 Ethereum and 25.5M USDC tokens in two transactions worth $617 million at the time, the largest cryptocurrency hack in history.<\/p>\n<p>The previous most significant theft of cryptocurrency was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/over-600-million-reportedly-stolen-in-cryptocurrency-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\">$611 million Poly Network hack<\/a> in August 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Treasury today sanctioned cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io used last month by the North Korean-backed Lazarus hacking group to launder funds stolen from Axie Infinity\u2019s Ronin bridge. In the wake of the attack, Sky Mavis (the bridge\u2019s creator) revealed that hackers breached the Ronin bridge on March 23 to steal 173,600 Ethereum and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}