Last week, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted the crypto giant had assisted crypto exchange Huobi in freezing some of those funds , recovering 124 bitcoin worth around $2.8 million.
North Korea has always backed crypto heists where hackers stole $1.2 billion worth of crypto and other virtual assets between 2017 and 2022, AP reported, with more than $500 million of that figure occurring in 2022 alone.