North Korea hacker group accused by FBI of stealing $1.5 billion in digital assets

A group known as "TraderTraitor" has been linked to the theft of $1.5 billion in virtual assets from a cryptocurrency exchange, surpassing the previous record sum of $1 billion. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has accused a North Korean hacker group of being responsible for the heist, with the stolen assets being converted to Bitcoin. The affected exchange, Bybit, reported that 400,000 Ethereum were stolen.