North-Korean state-sponsored hacking group Lazarus compromised hot wallet of Chinese crypto exchange HTX Global and stole USD 7.9 million worth of cryptocurrency on 24 September 2023 · 24.09.2023
North-Korean state-sponsored hacking group Lazarus compromised a hot wallet of Chinese crypto exchange HTX Global and stole USD 7.9 million worth of cryptocurrency on 24 September 2023, the Cyvers Alerts platform disclosed on 25 September.
Shortly after, HTX Global's corporate advisor Justin Sun announced that the company offered the hackers a five percent reward of the total amount stolen if the hacker returned the stolen money.
In March 2024 Blockchain cybersecurity firm Elliptic attributed the incident to the Lazarus-group and reported that more than $23 million from this attack was laundered by the group through mixer platform tornado cash.
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HTX (formerly Huobi) and HTX HECO Bridge heist; HTX employee socially engineered into running malicious application (CryptoOracle) from GitHub · On or about November 22, 2023 (social engineering from on or about November 10, 2023)
On or about November 22, 2023, North Korean cyber actors stole approximately $107 million in virtual currency from HTX and the HTX HECO Bridge. ... On or about November 10, 2023, an APT38 cyber actor socially engineered an employee at HTX and convinced that person to download and run a malicious application from a GitHub repository on the employee's work laptop. [Case No. 1:25-cv-03943, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; filing: COMPLAINT against APPROXIMATELY 13.98 MILLION USDT]