The U.S. government says North Korean hackers were involved in the attack on Ron’s network

The U.S. Treasury Department has accused North Korea of ​​links to the hacker group Lazarus $ 600 million worth of cryptocurrencies have been stolen Ron’s Bridge is linked to the Oxy Infinity game (AXS)

Company added Ethereum address (ETH) This Thursday (14) for a list of its obstacles from the group. When verified by CoinDesk today, the Nansen operating system labeled the allowed address as “Ronin Bridge Explorer”.

In the wallet, there was 148,000 ETH at the time of writing. CoinDesk has independently confirmed that Ronin is associated with exploitation.

Analytics company Chainalysis tweeted that the address was “Ronin involved in the hack.” Surveillance firm Elliptic estimates that 14% of the stolen funds have already been laundered as of Thursday.

Ron’s Network said in a blog post that the FBI linked Lazarus to a validator violation and that the Treasury Department allowed funding.

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“We are still in the process of adding additional safety measures before re-using Ron’s Bridge to mitigate future risks,” the site said, promising it would be deployed by the end of the month (the document) occurred and completed later.

Ronin – a sitechain linked to the major Ethereum blockchain, but allowing developers behind Sky Mavis’ play-to-arn game Axie Infinity to support faster and cheaper transactions – was hacked last month and lost 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USD in currency. (USDC), Then worth $ 625 million. The attack is one of the biggest exploits in cryptocurrency history.

Thursday’s move marked the first time the U.S. Treasury Office’s Lazarus cryptocurrency wallet has been blacklisted, a surveillance source told CoinDesk.

Treasury Department spokesmen did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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