The FBI referred to the attack as “TraderTraitor,” a malicious campaign linked to North Korean state-sponsored hackers the Lazarus Group.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit said last week hackers had stolen digital tokens worth around $1.5 billion, in what researchers called the biggest crypto heist of all time.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed that North Korean hackers, operating under the codename “TraderTraitor,” were behind the theft of approximately $1.5 billion in virtual assets from ByBit,