TechFlow news, October 7 — According to Cointelegraph, on October 4 the U.S. government filed two legal lawsuits seeking to seize over $2.67 million in digital assets stolen by the North Korean hacking group Lazarus Group.
According to the legal documents, the U.S. government is seeking to recover approximately $1.7 million in USDT that the group stole during the 2022 Deribit hack, in which the options exchange lost $28 million. After successfully breaching Deribit's hot wallet, the hackers laundered the funds through the Tornado Cash mixer and multiple Ethereum addresses.
U.S. law enforcement officials are also seeking to recover about $970,000 in Avalanche-bridged Bitcoin (BTC.b), stolen following Lazarus Group’s 2023 cyberattack on the gambling platform Stake.com. The malicious attack caused losses exceeding $41 million for Stake.
