Throughout 2026, the financially motivated, DPRK state-sponsored Lazarus subgroup TraderTraitor (aka UNC4899, PUKCHONG, Jade Sleet) has run campaigns targeting cryptocurrency trading entities, including a high-profile April attack in which the group stole USD 292 million from KelpDAO by compromising LayerZero.
KelpDAO is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that supports Ethereum restaking; LayerZero Labs provides services that enable cryptocurrency exchange across different blockchain platfo
