Bybit has launched a dashboard for its bounty program, with CEO Ben Zhou declaring "war" on North Korean hackers linked to the theft.

Bybit, Elliptic and ZeroShadow uncovered over 11,000 crypto wallets tied to North Korean hackers as part of a massive fund-tracing effort after the Bybit hack.

Researchers spot the stolen funds moving through cryptocurrency wallets that were used in earlier heists attributed to North Korea's Lazarus hacking group.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit said last week hackers had stolen digital tokens worth around $1.5 billion, in what researchers called the biggest crypto heist of all time. Bybit CEO Ben Zhou said the crypto was taken from a "cold wallet" - a digital wallet usually stored offline and so supposedly more secure - that was used for ether tokens.

Less than 72 hours later, Zhou said Bybit had restored the exchange’s balance and kept customer withdrawals open, although he did not account for the stolen crypto. The scale of the Bybit theft surpasses the previous record of a $615 million heist of Ethereum and U.

Still, valued at $1.5 billion, the Bybit heist would make up more than half of the total amount of crypto stolen in 2024, according to a report from Chainalysis last year. The Cha

Some $1.5 billion in crypto was stolen from the Bybit exchange - sparking fear across the crypto-verse. This was the biggest crypto theft since $611 million vanished from Poly Net

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