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FBI: North Korea behind over $6 billion Binance theft

PANews November 1 news: According to the official website of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the FBI announced that North Korea is responsible for the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance around October 29, and the FBI refers to this North Korean malicious cyber activity as "TraderTraitor." The FBI stated that it, together with the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI), observed that the attackers mainly converted the stolen assets into ETH and are expected to further launder them through DeFi and instant exchange services; the FBI called on THORChain node operators, RPC node operators, instant exchange platforms, DeFi services, and blockchain analytics companies to block transactions with the relevant addresses, and published hundreds of related ETH, BTC, and SOL addresses. Previously, Trump had said that whether North Korea was responsible for this was un

PANews November 1 news: According to the official website of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the FBI announced that North Korea is responsible for the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance around October 29, and the FBI refers to this North Korean malicious cyber activity as "TraderTraitor." The FBI stated that it, together with the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI), observed that the attackers mainly converted the stolen assets into ETH and are expected to further launder them through DeFi and instant exchange services; the FBI called on THORChain node operators, RPC node operators, instant exchange platforms, DeFi services, and blockchain analytics companies to block transactions with the relevant addresses, and published hundreds of related ETH, BTC, and SOL addresses. Previously, Trump had said that whether North Korea was responsible for this was under investigation.

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