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🇰🇵👺 ❌🚗👤 — ZachXBT suspects Lazarus behind Binance hack

➡️ Well-known on-chain tracking blogger ZachXBT speculates that the perpetrator behind this attack on Binance, which stole $5.875 billion, is the Reconnaissance General Bureau of the North Korean People's Army's General Staff Department, which manages the subordinate Lazarus Group.

➡️ The organization's track record of thefts in this field

🇯🇵 Japan's DMM Exchange, approximately $300 million
🇮🇳 India's WazirX Exchange, approximately $230 million
🇨🇳 Chinese Bybit Exchange, approximately $1.5 billion
🇨🇳 On-chain protocol Kelp DAO, approximately $292 million
🇨🇳 Chinese Bitget Exchange, approximately $380 million

📝 Although Binance has recovered half of the assets, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the like pose recovery challenges. The hacker's ultimate goal is to funnel the assets into North Korea to bolster national construction.

 

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— Mfw you realize you are the greatest on chain trader of all time, with +6 B in the PnL.

 

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Overnight, US Forces reportedly struck an IRGC launch squad in Qeshm Island.

Additionally, locals are reporting a series of explosions in Bandar-e-Jask, in the vicinity of the airport. Southern Iran.

 

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🇺🇸📞🇹🇷🇮🇱🇮🇷🇸🇦 — U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack:

The Ottoman Empire was a security guarantor; it 'left'

The Brits came in; they were the 'security' guarantor; they left.

We’re here.
We’re not leaving.

We’re just saying we’re not going to own it anymore.
We need participation from the region, and the president is doing it.

 

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — A CENTCOM official said to Faytuks Network that the U.S. Air Force struck a missile launcher on Iran’s Qeshm Island earlier tonight, following missile launches from the area.

“This is an area we’ve been watching over the last week, and we were prepared to act in a defensive manner,” the official told Faytuks Network.​

 

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🇷🇺🇺🇸🛬 — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Atlanta, US, for G20 meeting of foreign ministers, Russian State Media reported

➡️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived Friday in the city of Atlanta in the US state of Georgia, where he is due to represent Moscow at a meeting of G20 foreign ministers.

➡️ The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Lavrov’s arrival in the US, while many Russian media outlets, including state news agency Tass, said Russia's delegation flew for over 20 hours, taking a route that bypassed countries Moscow deemed “unfriendly.”

📞 Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova had confirmed a day earlier that Lavrov would embark on a two-day visit to Atlanta to attend the G20 foreign ministers' meeting, hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.