{"id":55902,"date":"2022-01-14T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55902"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:49:37","slug":"chainalys%d1%96s-in-2021-north-korean-hackers-stole-400-million-in-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/chainalys%d1%96s-in-2021-north-korean-hackers-stole-400-million-in-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Chainalys\u0456s: In 2021 North Korean hackers stole $400 million in cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers from North Korea carried out at least seven cyberattacks on cryptocurrency platforms in 2021, stealing digital assets worth about $400 million. This is according to data from <a href=\\\"https:\/\/blog.chainalysis.com\/reports\/north-korean-hackers-have-prolific-year-as-their-total-unlaundered-cryptocurrency-holdings-reach-all-time-high\/\\\">Chainalys\u0456s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks were primarily aimed at investment firms and centralized exchanges. The attackers used phishing, software vulnerabilities, malware and other techniques.<\/p>\n<p>From 2020 to 2021 the number of North Korea\u2013linked attacks increased, and hackers&#8217; earnings from breaches rose by 40%, according to analysts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/EYzZhNXOu_hGog-j1yCXK2Ewhg00gOXuP3KJkEPvwEyjDUDIFfk5jJ6VEXu4MAb2B5opKpWWjfWFz-uoI6kGCwVmmySGSFZ_RwWSorEaXn-mu6xcvPpqgsRLZammCqCWwSV5VeZr\\\" alt=\\\"Chainalys\u0456s: North Korean hackers stole $400 million in cryptocurrencies in 2021\\\"\/><figcaption><meta charset=\\\"utf-8\\\">Data: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/blog.chainalysis.com\/reports\/north-korean-hackers-have-prolific-year-as-their-total-unlaundered-cryptocurrency-holdings-reach-all-time-high\/\\\">Chainalys\u0456s<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The share of Bitcoin among the stolen assets was only 20%; the majority (58%) went to Ethereum, and another 22% to altcoins and ERC-20 tokens.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/7hWKkCKNhaRtho14j45iCmblQutNOgzPSK5LrISaVXEoTz3x8HDCVHCg94mvTX_9aigtLr8zOxAUGAu0jvsPiagAxIMyx_-toV0OIpL2oFVmfcX6gMOSe_2jtkhmJ_N5xXj8Wsv0\\\" alt=\\\"Chainalys\u0456s: North Korean hackers stole $400 million in cryptocurrencies in 2021\\\"\/><figcaption><meta charset=\\\"utf-8\\\">Data: Chainalys\u0456s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Experts recorded a rise in the popularity of mixing services \u2014 in 2021 North Korean hackers laundered more than 65% of the stolen funds through them.<\/p>\n<p>Chainalys\u0456s also identified about $170 million in cryptocurrencies stolen by North Korea\u2013linked hackers as a result of 49 attacks carried out from 2017 through 2021. They are controlled by North Korea, but have not yet been laundered.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts suggested that the attackers are not moving the funds, awaiting that law enforcement interest in older breaches will diminish over time.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Chainalys\u0456s specialists said that in 2021 the attackers targeting the crypto industry <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-in-2021-cryptocurrency-scammers-earned-a-record-14-billion\">stole a record $14 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers from North Korea in 2021 carried out at least seven cyberattacks on cryptocurrency platforms, stealing digital assets worth about $400 million. This is according to data from Chainalys\u0456s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"North Korean hackers stole about $400 million from crypto platforms in 2021, per Chainalysis.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[274,1154,1202],"class_list":["post-55902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-chainalysis","tag-crimes","tag-north-korea-dprk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"26","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"North Korean hackers stole about $400 million from crypto platforms in 2021, per Chainalysis.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55904,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55902\/revisions\/55904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}