first-half-of-the-2022-reportEN.pdf (5 MB)

The most infamous of them is the North Korean hacking outfit LAZARUS GROUP, which presents a significant danger to the Blockchain ecosystem. Circle: In the first half of 2022, 18 ETH addresses were blacklisted and the USDC-ERC20 assets On April 14, the US Treasury Department sanctioned Ronin Network hacker (LAZARUS GROUP) associated addresses, and on May 6, it sanctioned a bitcoin mixer, Blender. Because of this, in the case of common cryptocurrency crimes, blockchain anti-money laundering is in a critical position and also serves as the final line of defense to prevent hackers from effectively exploiting it. We can find traces of the Lazarus Group in these security incidents through systematically monitoring their money laundering techniques.