The OKX exchange announced the temporary stop of the work of decentralized finance services (Defi), which were used by hackers to launder the BYBIT assets stolen from the BYBIT platform.

OKX commented that the decision was made after attempt by Lazarus Group hackers to use the Defi services of the site to launder the funds stolen from BYBIT, as well as the media appetives who criminally operating the exchange of the exchange.

Earlier, BYBIT General Director Ben Zhou (Ben Zhou) declared About the loss of 40 233 ETH in the amount of about $ 100 million, which, according to him, were washed through OKX Defi services.

“After consulting with the regulatory authorities of the European Union, we made a proactive decision to suspend our DEX aggregator services. This step will allow us to introduce additional updates to prevent abuse, ”the exchange said in a statement.

OKX added that to protect against potential attackers, a system of operational detection and blocking of hackers in the centralized system (CEX) was launched on the site, as well as work on improving transactions labeling procedures to exclude possible confusion between legitimate and suspicious operations.

Last week, Bloomberg, citing sources in BYBIT, announced the start of the investigation of the European Union regulators in relation to the OKX crypto platform on suspicion of assisting the concealment of traces of a large -scale hacker attack.