FBI: North Korea likely behind Binance cyber heist | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News - NHKニュース

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says North Korea was involved in a recent cyberattack on major cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

Binance said on Thursday that the estimated total impact of the theft sits at around 6.3 billion dollars. It added that it has frozen about 3 billion dollars in affected assets.

The FBI said on Saturday that it believes that North Korean malicious cyber activity known as "TraderTraitor" was responsible.

It said the TraderTraitor actors appear to be converting stolen assets into the Ethereum cryptocurrency, with the assets expected to be laundered further.

The FBI released a list of addresses operated by or closely connected to the TraderTraitor actors and urged private-sector entities, including virtual asset service providers, to block transactions with or derived from the addresses.

Authorities including the FBI and Japan's National Police Agency have identified the North Korean group as being responsible for the 2024 theft of assets worth about 48 billion yen, or about 300 million dollars, from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin.