Greek authorities have performed the country’s first cryptocurrency attacks, which blocks access to funds lifted from February’s record $ 1.5 billion BYBIT hack linked to North Korea’s Lazarus group.
The Hellenic Anti -money Money Laundering Authority is traced to a suspicious transaction to a wallet that on -chain -data tied to the initial theft. This wallet was, according to Greece’s Minister of Economics and Finance Kyriakos Pierrakakis, tied to a “Greek platform that provided exchange services.”
Analysts, according to a blog post, used chainalysis -reactor to map the flow of funds to establish “a final link between cryptocurrency in the suspected user’s wallet and the primary wallets used in the Bybit hack,” the post adds.
The evidence allowed the agency to issue a freezer order and lock the assets before they could disappear. Per Pierrakakis, the Hellenian Anti-White Linking Authority’s operations have enabled about 10 million euros ($ 11.7 million) to be reinstated to victims. It is unclear whether any of these returns are related to the recent seizure.
The hackers have previously moved funds through mixers such as Wasabi and Tornado Cash, crossing bridges and peer -to -peer -writing tables.
Bybit’s public lazarusbounty -dashboard suggests that about $ 72 million, 5% of the stolen ether is now frozen while a third remains traceable. About $ 870 million stolen from BYBT is now “gone dark” according to the dashboard.
