Bybit, a virtual asset exchange that was stolen of ETH worth about 2 trillion won by the North Korean hacking organization Lazarus, has declared war on Lazarus and offered a bounty of about 200 billion won.
According to Decrypt on the 26th, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou said he has opened a bounty site to track Lazarus' money laundering routes through his X account. Zhou CEO said, "Join the war against Lazarus," and "You can connect your virtual asset wallet to the site and participate in fund tracking, and if the information you submit leads to fund freezing, the bounty will be paid immediately." According to the notice on the bounty site, Bybit has offered a bounty of $140 million (about 200.4 billion won), which is 10% of the total stolen funds of $1.46 billion.
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According to the data released on the site, 4.231 million dollars (about 60.5 billion won), which is 3% of the total stolen funds, have been frozen, and 90.23% are under fund tracking. 9.419 million dollars (about 134.8 billion won), which is 6.74% of the total funds, failed to be tracked. So far, about 4.23 million dollars (about 6 billion won) in bounties have been paid to 5 people who contributed to the fund freezing.
CEO Zhou said, "The site will be maintained until malicious actors such as Lazarus disappear from the virtual asset industry," and "Even if it's not this hacking incident, anyone who has been stolen of virtual assets by Lazarus can participate."
Meanwhile, Bybit was stolen of ETH worth $1.46 billion (about 2.0908 trillion won) in a hacking attack by Lazarus on the 21st. This is the largest scale in the history of the virtual asset industry, and the aftermath of this incident led to a sharp drop in the price of BTC virtual assets.
- Reporter Kim Jeong-woo
- woo@decenter.kr
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