Kim Jong-Un’s Crypto Money Hackers Changed Target!

$625 million ronin accused of being the hacking group behind the bridge hacking North Korean hacker group Lazarus Now it’s targeting Japan.

Japan’s law enforcement and Japan Financial Services Agency made a joint statement on this matter.

In a joint statement, the Japanese cryptocurrency It was stated that cyber attacks targeting the stock exchanges were carried out and the notorious hacker group Lazarus was behind these events.

In the statement, Lazarus told the targeted exchange employees. cryptocurrency It was stated that he sent phishing emails by pretending to be the managers of his companies and communicated with them via social media to infect their computers with malware.

According to the news of the local news agency Japan News, the internal systems of some cryptocurrency exchanges were hacked and some cryptocurrency it was stolen.

While the Japanese National Police did not disclose which crypto exchanges were targeted or the amount of cryptocurrencies stolen, it did reveal the name of the hacker group.

This is unusual, as the police would not reveal the name of the attacker before he was arrested. However, in order to prevent a potential attack from occurring, the police force rarely discloses the name of the attacker, as in this case.

As it will be remembered, the Ronin Bridge was attacked last March and the attackers left the Ronin Bridge. 173,600 Ethereum (ETH) and 25.5 million USDC had stolen.

Afterwards, the US Treasury Department claimed that the North Korean hacking group Lazarus was responsible for the Ronin bridge hacking incident.