{"id":587686,"date":"2026-04-22T13:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/north-korea-tied-to-heists-worth-578m-in-april-after-kelp-dao-exploit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:52:42","slug":"north-korea-tied-to-heists-worth-578m-in-april-after-kelp-dao-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/north-korea-tied-to-heists-worth-578m-in-april-after-kelp-dao-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea tied to heists worth $578M in April after Kelp DAO exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DPRK-linked crypto theft topped $578M in April after the Kelp DAO exploit, as attacks continue to expand across protocols, companies and end users.<\/p>\n

Kelp DAO suffered a $292 million hack on Saturday, overtaking Drift as the largest crypto exploit of the year so far. North Korea-linked hackers are suspected to be behind the attack.<\/p>\n

Kelp DAO said<\/a> Monday that the exploit stemmed from a failure of cross-chain messaging protocol LayerZero\u2019s infrastructure. LayerZero said the breach was enabled by Kelp DAO\u2019s use of a single verifier configuration<\/a> to approve cross-chain messages.<\/p>\n

LayerZero said<\/a> that \u201cpreliminary indicators\u201d attributed the exploit to TraderTraitor, a subgroup of North Korea\u2019s state-backed hacking unit known as Lazarus Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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DPRK-linked crypto theft topped $578M in April after the Kelp DAO exploit, as attacks continue to expand across protocols, companies and end users. Kelp DAO suffered a $292 million hack on Saturday, overtaking Drift as the largest crypto exploit of the year so far. North Korea-linked hackers are suspected to be behind the attack. Kelp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":587687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-587686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}