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North Korean hackers used NEAR memecoins to launder funds from the Binance hack, Elliptic says

Cointelegraph · 2026-11-09
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Elliptic reported that North Korean hackers laundered about $430,000 from cryptocurrency stolen in the $6.4 billion Binance hack by launching six memecoins on NEAR between Nov. 5 and 7. They swapped stolen NEAR through decentralized exchange liquidity pools to move funds between wallets without direct transfers. The tokens attracted almost no outside trading and were abandoned; five of the six creators were funded from earlier token sales two to 13 minutes before the next launch.

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Source: Cointelegraph · via ahirlevel.hu

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