PANews reported on February 27 that according to an FBI announcement, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed that the North Korean hacker group "TraderTraitor" was responsible for the theft of $1.5 billion in crypto assets from the Bybit exchange on February 21. The FBI said that the hackers have converted part of the stolen funds into Bitcoin and stored them in multiple blockchain addresses, and it is expected that they will be exchanged for legal currency through money laundering channels in the future.

The FBI urged RPC node operators, exchanges, DeFi service providers and blockchain analysis agencies to block addresses related to TraderTraitor to prevent further circulation of stolen assets. At the same time, the FBI listed multiple Ethereum addresses related to the organization and called on companies to cooperate with law enforcement agencies to jointly combat North Korean cybercrime.