According to Arkham Intelligence, the Lazarus hacker group associated with the North Korea authorities controls 13,518 BTC, which allowed the DPRK to enter the five largest holders of the first cryptocurrency.

The Arkham Intelligence emphasized that North Korea bypassed this indicator Salvador (6,089 BTC) and the Kingdom of Butane (13,029 BTC).

The Lazarus attack on the BYBIT crypto -rope contributed to such a significant increase in bitcoin reserves – hackers withdrew $ 1.4 billion from the site. Lazarus exchanged the stolen 500,000 ETH with the decentralized ThorCHain protocol, analysts reported.

According to them, Lazarus conducted other attacks against crypto companies around the world. Among them are the theft of $ 308 million in the Japanese company DMM Bitcoin in 2024 and $ 615 million from the Ronin network in 2022.

In addition to bitcoin, Lazarus disposes of cryptocurrencies worth about $ 30 million, including ETH, BNB, DAI and Busd.

Earlier, SAFE (Wallet), together with the analysts of the Mandiant platform, presented the preliminary results of the BYBIT cryptocurrency exchange investigation.