{"id":83213,"date":"2023-08-17T14:44:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T11:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=83213"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:49:24","slug":"north-korean-hackers-stole-more-than-180-million-in-cryptocurrencies-in-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/north-korean-hackers-stole-more-than-180-million-in-cryptocurrencies-in-six-months\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean hackers stole more than $180 million in cryptocurrencies in six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of 2023, hackers from North Korea, by exploiting a range of exploits, stole $180 million across various cryptocurrencies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiatoday.co.kr\/view.php?key=20230817010008575\">Local media<\/a> report, citing data from South Korea&#8217;s intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most dangerous factions remains the Lazarus Group, which is suspected in numerous hacks. In particular, the hackers are thought to be involved in the July <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/lazarus-group-suspected-in-coinspaid-hack-worth-37-million\">heist of $37 million<\/a> from the payment service CoinsPaid.<\/p>\n<p>They have also been blamed for attacks on other crypto companies, including the Ronin sidechain <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ronin-the-ethereum-sidechain-hacked-attacker-siphons-625-million\">Ronin<\/a>, the Atomic Wallet wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/atomic-wallet-hack-losses-exceed-35-million\">Atomic Wallet<\/a>, the Alphapo platform <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/alphapo-hack-losses-estimated-at-60-million\">Alphapo<\/a> and the Horizon cross-chain bridge <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hacker-steals-about-100-million-in-harmonys-horizon-cross-chain-bridge-attack\">Horizon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to some reports, the total damage to the crypto industry from actions linked to Pyongyang-linked cybercriminals <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/north-korea-earmarked-half-of-the-3-billion-stolen-in-crypto-hacks-for-its-nuclear-program\">amounted to $3 billion<\/a>. Half of this sum financed a programme to develop ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of 2023, hackers from North Korea, exploiting a range of exploits, stole $180 million across various cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,1202],"class_list":["post-83213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-north-korea-dprk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83213","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=83213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83215,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83213\/revisions\/83215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}