{"id":154171,"date":"2023-01-02T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T16:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/north-korean-hackers-are-posing-as-vc-firms-to-steal-crypto-and-a-blockchain-expert-says-2023-could-bring-more-cyberattacks-than-ever"},"modified":"2023-01-02T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T16:23:44","slug":"north-korean-hackers-are-posing-as-vc-firms-to-steal-crypto-and-a-blockchain-expert-says-2023-could-bring-more-cyberattacks-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/north-korean-hackers-are-posing-as-vc-firms-to-steal-crypto-and-a-blockchain-expert-says-2023-could-bring-more-cyberattacks-than-ever","title":{"rendered":"North Korean hackers are posing as VC firms to steal crypto \u2014 and a blockchain expert says 2023 could bring more cyberattacks than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-korean-hackers-are-posing-as-vc-firms-to-steal-crypto-and-a-blockchain-expert-says-2023-could-bring-more-cyberattacks-than-ever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s infamous Lazarus Group is mimicking venture capital firms and banks to steal cryptocurrency, according to a report from cybersecurity company <a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.com\/bluenoroff-methods-bypass-motw\/108383\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kaspersky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The state-sponsored cybercrime group, which was was behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/currencies\/axie-infinity-hack-ronin-network-crypto-adoption-eth-blockchain-2022-4?utm_medium=ingest&utm_source=markets&utm_medium=ingest&utm_source=markets\" rel=\"\">$625 million Axie Infinity hack<\/a> in April, is creating domains that present themselves as well-known Japanese, US and Vietnamese companies.<\/p>\n<p>Kaspersky said Lazarus\u2019 BlueNoroff subgroup is using new types of malware delivery methods that bypass security warnings about downloading content. They can then \u201cintercept large cryptocurrency transfers, changing the recipient\u2019s address, and pushing the transfer amount to the limit, essentially draining the account in a single transaction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s infamous Lazarus Group is mimicking venture capital firms and banks to steal cryptocurrency, according to a report from cybersecurity company Kaspersky. The state-sponsored cybercrime group, which was was behind the $625 million Axie Infinity hack in April, is creating domains that present themselves as well-known Japanese, US and Vietnamese companies. Kaspersky said Lazarus\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,1761,34,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154171","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}