North Korean launderers use NEAR memecoins; other crypto security warnings
Elliptic says North Korean actors are moving funds stolen from Binance through memecoins on NEAR. CZ dismissed a separate data-sale claim as a scam.
What we know
Elliptic reportedly found about 117K NEAR (about $430K) passed through at least six memecoins launched Nov 5-7. Binance's founder called a separate claim of data being sold obviously fake. An account on X published an investigation alleging a trader extracted $1.7M through side wallets. Traders warned that FOMO was routing Elysium tokens through malicious pools. This is unconfirmed.
How the story developed
Elliptic says North Korean actors are moving funds stolen from Binance through memecoins on NEAR. CZ dismissed a separate data-sale claim as a scam.
CZ said at the Oxford Union that parts of the recent Binance hack could have been prevented, as some employees didn't follow basic security procedures.
Sources
“This is obviously fake/scam.”
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