Bybit returned to a 1: 1 support for customers’ assets and completely concluded “the gap of ether” which he faced after an unprecedented piracy of 1.4 billion dollars struck the stock market Friday evening .
The scholarship received 446,870 ether (ETH), worth $ 1.23 billion at current prices, through loan, significant deposits and ether purchases in the past two days, A Declared on Monday the channel follow -up service.
Addressing activity suggests that more than $ 400 million has been purchased through more and more negotiations, with an additional $ 300 million from scholarships. Nearly $ 300 million have been sought as loans; The others come from appearances apparently belonging to cryptographic funds.
ETH prices have increased up to 4% over the weekend in the middle of the apparent purchase activity, but are down 2% in the last 24 hours because the feeling is not Completely lifted.
Meanwhile, Bybit said late Sunday Sunday that all deposit and withdrawal activities had “completely returned to normal levels – with total deposits” slightly exceeding “on Saturday as a sign of market confidence.
Friday’s attack targeted one of the “cold” bybit “cold” portfolios, which are generally considered secure due to their lack of internet connectivity, in a breakage that made it possible to withdraw $ 1.4 billion ‘Eth.
The pirates took control by exploiting a sophisticated method involving a manipulated user interface (IU) and an URL. This allowed the attackers to modify the logic of the intelligent contract, by redirecting the funds to an unidentified address. The stolen assets were then divided on several wallets and exchanged on decentralized exchanges.
The detective Blockchain Zachxbt linked hacker to the Lazare group in North Korea, a collective of hacking sponsored by the notorious state for cryptographic flights. Lazarus was at the origin of several high -level cryptographic attacks, including the hack of $ 600 million Ronin Network in 2022, and a drain of $ 230 million on the Indian Exchange Wazirx in 2024.
