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Rome: Hackers associated with North Korea have listened to a Dubai company. The US Federal Investigation Agency FBI has accused hackers associated with North Korea of stealing a US dollar value (a kind of cryptocurrency) worth about one and a half billion US dollars from a Dubai -based company. The FBI has described it as one of the biggest theft known globally Cryptocurrency (virtual currency).
According to the agency, hackers of the ‘Treder Trader’ and ‘Lazarus Group’ Group targeted Baibit in early February, which is in the world’s largest crypto exchange. Baibit said that hackers, through the so -called “cold” or offline wallet, transferred “manipulation” to the regular transfer of etherium and transferred it to thousands of unknown accounts on various blockchains. The FBI said that the hackers “Cryptocurrency Businesses carry out the theft of cryptocurrency, which include malware (viruses) that make the theft of virtual currency easier.
Blackchain made for cheating
The agency said in an online public announcement on Wednesday night that it believes that North Korea -backed hackers are behind this theft. According to the announcement, “Treder tractor hackers are moving fast and they have turned some of the theft ethrium into bitcoins and other virtual currencies through thousands of unknown accounts on several blocks.” ‘Blockchain’ is a shared digital bookkeeping, which monitors the transaction of virtual currency on a platform and records it. The FBI said, “It is believed that these virtual currencies will be converted into other currencies even further and finally the form of valid currency.” North Korea’s government media has not currently reacted to the news of the theft nor the FBI allegations. However, South Korean intelligence agency claims that North Korea has stolen US $ 1.2 billion as an estimated cryptocurrency and other virtual properties in the last five years.
UN is also investigating North Korean hackers
A United Nations Committee of experts reported that it was allegedly investigating 58 cyber attacks by North Korea between 2017 and 2023, through which “about three billion US dollars to support the” nuclear weapons program of the country “was stolen. Baibit co-founder and CEO Ben Jhau confirmed the incident in a post on ‘X’. He shared a link to the website with the post, which has offered a reward of US $ 14 million in exchange for the theft virtual currency and ‘freeze’ by other Xjrench. (AP)
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