Kaspersky Labs, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity teams, attacked the hacker group known as North Korean.Lazarusmade a remarkable statement about this. According to the statement, North Korean hackers hacked a glitch in Google Chrome. Taking advantage of zero-day vulnerabilitythey emptied countless people’s cryptocurrency wallets. Unfortunately, the extent of the loss could not be determined.

According to the statement from Kaspersky Labs, hackers have prepared a web-based game to deceive people. “TheTankZone” or “DeTankWar”, the game was reportedly based on blockchain and allowed for earning NFTs. It was also available on platforms such as X and Linkedln. advertisement hackers managed to lure people into their trap.

The security vulnerability discovered months ago has been fixed

Kaspersky Labs’ statement noted that the malicious game exploiting the vulnerability had been detected in Google Chrome. May 2024It stated that it was detected and the information was passed on to Google. Furthermore, Microsoft’s cybersecurity experts discovered the vulnerability in question and reported it to Google. Google also closed this security issue in accordance with the information received, but cryptocurrency theft unfortunately this did not occur.

Lazarus attacks the cryptocurrency world he really loves. Previous investigations have shown that this team stole at least $200 million between 2020 and 2023. But it can be more than that. Because the US Department of Justice has made a statement about Lazarus in recent years and as recently as 2022. $600 million He claimed that Lazarus was behind the cryptocurrency theft. Naturally, this claim could not be verified.