The North Korean criminal gang Lazarus Group has been blamed for last weekend's attack on Atomic Wallet that drained at least $35 million in cryptocurrency from private accounts.
Atomic Wallet is an app for managing cryptocurrency on Windows, macOS, and some Linux distributions, as well as Android and iOS devices. Last weekend an unknown number of Estonia-headquartered Atomic Wallet's five million users found that some or all of the crypto in their wallets had been removed. Some said they lost their entire savings.
to more than $35 million. The app maker has also publicly offered the attackers 10 percent of the funds in exchange for 90 percent of the crypto-cash being returned./p>Elliptic researchers said that by tracking some of the stolen crypto, they were able to collect information about how it was handled and laundered, with the audit trail pointing in the direction of Lazarus Group.