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The Lazarus Group, the main suspect in the historical piracy of Bybita estimated at $ 1.4 billion, is also involved in recent fraud in Solana, especially through the Pump.Fun platform, according to discoveries of the investigator Blockchain Zacxbt.
Lazarus uses solan after a record flight bybity
21st February 2025 was a victim of a massive attack and lost more than $ 1.4 billion in the liquid Ether (Steth), the cloak bet ETH (Meth) and other digital active ingredients. Hackers threatened a cold portfolio of the platform using a false intelligent contract that deceived a security system with multiple signing.
The investigation of Arkham Intelligence quickly pointed to the North Korean group Lazarus. The main point of turnover occurs 22 February, when ZacxBT discovered a transfer of $ 1.08 million to Solan from the address 0x363908DF2B0890E7E5C1E403935133094287D7d1, which revealed a direct connection to the pump platform.
” I have published more than 920 addresses that receive funding funds related to Bybity, and I noticed that the whitening person for the Lazarus group had previously launched memes through the entertainment “Said Zacxbt in the telegram report on February 23.
Consequences for the whole crypto ecosystem
Investigations of ZACHXBT allowed to identify more than 920 addresses that are involved in the whitening of the bactering hacking. An even more surprising investigator found that the person associated with the Lazarus group had already organized the same fraudulent launch through the pump.fun.
This revelation comes when the Solana ecosystem goes through a particularly difficult period. The Collapse of the Libra token, supported by Argentine President Javier Mileim, recently shake the net. Initiators would divert more than $ 107 million, causing a 94 % price drop and a $ 4 billion in capitalization.
The impact on solan is significant: the same index shows a negative level of -5.9 %and network activity dropped by 40 %, from 15.6 million addresses active in November 2024 to 9, 5 million in February 2025.
In short, the Lazarus Group continues to be the main threat to the ecosystem that has already stolen digital assets of $ 1.34 billion in 2024, an increase of 102 % compared to 2023. This situation pushed the American, Japanese and South Korean government, To give the government a joint warning and emphasize the international size of the threat.
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