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North Korean Hackers Launder Stolen Funds via Memecoins

· Source: Cointelegraph

Blockchain firm Elliptic discovered that North Korean hackers created new tokens on the NEAR network to launder funds from a Binance exploit.

According to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, North Korean hackers have deployed new tokens on the NEAR network to launder funds connected to a Binance exploit. The perpetrators utilized liquidity pools involving six newly created memecoins in order to obscure the transfer of stolen assets between various digital wallets.

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