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Financial Crime Matters: Financial Crime Author Talks Bybit Hack
printIn this episode of Financial Crime Matters, Geoff White, author of “The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War” and two other financial crime-related books, describes the techniques that the the Lazarus Group, a North Korean state-sponsored hacking collective, used in heisting and laundering $1.5 billion of cryptocurrency from Bybit last month. White also discusses Bybit’s response to the theft, which ranks as the largest of its kind.
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| Topics : | Cryptocurrencies , Info. Security/Cybercrime |
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| Document Date: | March 24, 2025 |
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