Business Standard (India) (business-standard.com)
WazirX's $235 mn hack linked to North Korea; US, Japan, S Korea to counter · 2025-01-15
attribution sentence(s): The US, Japan, and South Korean governments have pledged to counter North Korea by imposing sanctions and strengthening cybersecurity in the Indo-Pacific region | India's largest cryptocurrency exchange, WazirX, suffered a major security breach in July 2024, which has now been attributed to North Korea's notorious hacking organisation Lazarus Group. | “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) cyber programme threatens our three countries and the broader international community and, in particular, poses a significant threat to the integrity and stability of the international financial system,” the statement read.