Harmony Attackers Attempt to Launder Another $27 Million

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.

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.