5 Minutes, $44M: CoinDCX Hack Shows All the Signs of Lazarus Involvement

2025-07-21 Cyvers

https://cyvers.ai/blog/5-minutes-44m-coindcx-hack-shows-all-the-signs-of-lazarus-involvement

Cyvers assesses the $44.2 million CoinDCX operational-wallet breach as showing hallmarks of North Korea's Lazarus Group targeting centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. The attacker staged funds from Tornado Cash through FixedFloat, Polygon, and Solana, sent a 1 USDT test transaction, and then drained 44 million USDT in five minutes through rapid burst transfers. Follow-up transactions moved additional USDC and USDT, while CoinDCX said customer funds remained safe in cold storage and the exchange treasury would cover losses. Cyvers links the incident to a broader pattern of exchange infrastructure compromise, access-control failures, and private-key abuse that enables state-sponsored actors to move assets across chains faster than manual defenses can respond.

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