Inside the Cyber Jungle: How a North Korean Hacker Group Slipped Up and Got Exposed!


A major crypto hack was narrowly avoided when a sharp-eyed BitMEX employee spotted something suspicious in a LinkedIn message. The attacker posed as a Web3 developer with an “NFT marketplace project” and invited the employee to review some code on GitHub. But things didn’t feel right 😒. Turns out, this was no ordinary coder — it was the notorious Lazarus Group, a state-sponsored hacking collective tied to North Korea 🇰🇵. These hackers are believed to be behind major breaches of exchanges like Bybit, WazirX, and Stake.


BitMEX’s security team jumped into action 🕵️‍♂️ and uncovered malicious code hidden in the GitHub files. The sneaky software was designed to steal login details, IP addresses, and even geolocation data from the victim’s device. Even scarier — it was connected to a public database on Supabase, which stored details of already-compromised machines 😨. Thanks to a common mistake in setting up permissions, BitMEX was able to peek into this hacker logbook.


That’s when the real twist happened 🤯! While analyzing the logs, BitMEX discovered something huge: one of the hackers had accidentally revealed their real IP address — traced back to a residential internet connection in China, not a VPN. This major blunder exposed not just the attacker’s possible location, but also hinted at how these operations are run. They even noticed “office hours” in the hackers' activity logs — working from 5PM to 10PM Pyongyang time. So much for stealth mode! 🕗💻


This incident shows how even the most dangerous hackers can trip over their own wires 😅. While Lazarus often starts with simple phishing scams, their back-end systems can be surprisingly advanced. But one small slip-up was all BitMEX needed to unmask them and build a live monitoring system that tracks new infections 🔍. With over 850 records logged so far, this might just be the breakthrough needed to strike back at one of crypto’s most infamous villains.

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