{"id":15273,"date":"2025-02-27T09:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=15273"},"modified":"2025-02-27T09:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:31:42","slug":"fbi-seeks-crypto-industry-help-to-track-block-laundering-of-bybit-hack-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=15273","title":{"rendered":"FBI Seeks Crypto Industry Help to Track, Block Laundering of Bybit Hack Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asked for crypto industry help in tracking and blocking transactions intended to launder the $1.5 billion stolen from Bybit by North Korean hackers.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI published a list of Ethereum addresses that are holding or have held assets from the theft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/PSA\/2025\/PSA250226\" target=\"_blank\">in a public service announcement on Wednesday<\/a>. The announcement reiterated the country&#8217;s involvement and labeled it a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/CSA\/2022\/220418.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">TraderTraitor<\/a> activity. <\/p>\n<p>The hack had already been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/02\/21\/north-korean-hackers-were-behind-crypto-s-largest-left-of-all-time\" target=\"_blank\">attributed to the North Korea-linked Lazarus group<\/a>  by blockchain analytics firms. The ether and ETH staking tokens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/02\/21\/bybit-experiences-usd1-46b-in-suspicious-outflows-zachxbt\" target=\"_blank\">were stolen<\/a> in the largest ever hack of a crypto exchange last week.<\/p>\n<p>The illicit actors are converting some of their stolen assets to bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies &#8220;across thousands of addresses on multiple blockchains,&#8221; the PSA said. The FBI said it expects the assets to be laundered further and eventually converted to fiat currency.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/02\/25\/bybit-declares-war-on-lazarus-as-it-crowdsources-effort-to-freeze-stolen-funds\" target=\"_blank\">Bybit Declares \u2018War on Lazarus\u2019 as It Crowdsources Effort to Freeze Stolen Funds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asked for crypto industry help in tracking and blocking transactions intended to launder the $1.5 billion stolen from Bybit by North Korean hackers. The FBI published a list of Ethereum addresses that are holding or have held assets from the theft in a public service announcement on Wednesday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-15273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}