Harmony Attackers Attempt to Launder Another $27 Million

The laundering attempt brings the total cashout attempt to about $91 million out of a total of $100 million stolen.

Late last night, the attackers behind the Harmony exploit back in June 2022 attempted to cash out another batch of their ill-begotten ETH gains.

Following the 41k ETH laundered via

TornadoCash and Railgun two weeks ago, worth about 63.5 million at the time, the North Korean Lazarus Group made an attempt at laundering another $27.7 million worth of ETH.

Intercepted by Exchanges

However, the attempt was not as successful as the last. Virtually all of the ETH laundered two weeks ago was cashed out via unnamed exchanges. This time, the security teams used were reportedly able to freeze most of the funds.

January 15. While identified in the filing only as “Witness-1,” Ryne Miller is FTX US’s current counsel.

“I would really love to reconnect and see if there’s a way for us to have a constructive relationship, use each other as resources when possible, or at least vet things with each other,” U.S. prosecutors allege Bankman-Fried wrote.

Prosecutors said Bankman-Fried has tried to contact other current and former employees of FTX as well. And his desire to “vet things” with Miller suggests an effort to influence the testimony of potential witnesses, they argued.

It is up to exchanges to share exactly how much of the 17,278 in ETH was frozen.

Blockchain security researcher ZachXBT originally sounded the alarm on Twitter, posting evidence of $17.7 million being moved through the two mixing tools and onto exchanges.