{"id":72973,"date":"2023-01-24T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T11:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=72973"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:28:27","slug":"fbi-accuses-lazarus-group-and-apt38-of-hacking-the-horizon-cross-chain-bridge-on-the-harmony-protocol-for-100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/fbi-accuses-lazarus-group-and-apt38-of-hacking-the-horizon-cross-chain-bridge-on-the-harmony-protocol-for-100-million\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI accuses Lazarus Group and APT38 of hacking the Horizon cross-chain bridge on the Harmony protocol for $100 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the June 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hacker-steals-about-100-million-in-harmonys-horizon-cross-chain-bridge-attack\">attack on the Horizon cross-chain bridge<\/a> of the Harmony protocol, amounting to $100 million, North Korean hackers Lazarus Group and APT38 are implicated. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/press-releases\/fbi-confirms-lazarus-group-apt38-cyber-actors-responsible-for-harmonys-horizon-bridge-currency-theft\">\u0424\u0411\u0420<\/a> announced this.<\/p>\n<p>The agency linked the breach to the TraderTraitor malware campaign operated by North Korea. The stolen funds were laundered through the anonymizer RAILGUN. <\/p>\n<p>The FBI managed to freeze $60 million of the amount in coordination with unnamed virtual asset service providers.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials noted that North Korea uses the stolen funds to finance programs to develop ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elliptic-lazarus-hackers-may-be-behind-horizon-attack\">Elliptic<\/a>, Lazarus was linked to the Harmony attack in the summer of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>These same hackers are named <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-address-linked-to-lazarus-group-sanctioned-by-us-hackers-tied-to-ronin-attack\">responsible<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ronin-the-ethereum-sidechain-hacked-attacker-siphons-625-million\">an attack<\/a> on the Ronin cross-chain bridge in March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean hackers Lazarus Group and APT38 are involved in the June 2022 attack on the Horizon cross-chain bridge of the Harmony protocol, worth $100 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,2139,1143,1125,1202],"class_list":["post-72973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-harmony-one","tag-intelligence-agencies","tag-lazarus","tag-north-korea-dprk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72975,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72973\/revisions\/72975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}