Major Cyberattacks Targeting Cryptocurrency & NFT Industry
2025-01-21 • SOCRadar •
https://socradar.io/major-cyberattacks-target-cryptocurrency-nft-industry/
SOCRadar's crypto and NFT threat overview includes the Ronin Network breach as a major DPRK-linked case. The article says attackers stole about 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC from the Axie Infinity Ronin bridge after compromising five of nine validator nodes through private-key access and lingering Sky Mavis permissions. It notes that U.S. authorities attributed the breach to North Korea's Lazarus Group and places the incident in a wider pattern of cryptocurrency theft, phishing, dark-web tooling, smart-contract exploitation, and attacks on exchanges, wallets, and DeFi platforms. The DPRK-relevant value is the Ronin case study and its link to Lazarus financial operations, not the article's broader marketing sections.