Bybit has returned to a 1: 1 support of the client’s assets and has completely closed the “ether gap” he faced after an unprecedented trick of $ 1.4 billion arrived at the exchange on Friday night.
The exchange has received 446,870 ETHER (ETH), with a value of $ 1.23 billion at current prices, through loans, large deposits and ether purchases in the last two days, the monitoring service of the Lookochain chain said in a Post X on Monday.
The management activity suggests that more than $ 400 million were bought through the free sale negotiation, with another $ 300 million brought directly from the exchanges. Almost $ 300 million were sought as loans; The rest are of directions apparently belonging to cryptographic funds.
ETH prices increased up to 4% over the weekend in the middle of the apparent purchase activity, but have dropped 2% in the last 24 hours, since the feeling is not completely raised.
Meanwhile, Bybit said Sunday night that all deposit and retirement activities had “recovered completely at normal levels, with total” slightly higher “deposits” withdrawals such as Saturday in a sign of confidence in the market.
Friday’s attack attacked one of the “cold” wallets outside the Bybit line, which are generally considered safe due to their lack of internet connectivity, in a robbery that allowed to remove $ 1.4 billion in ETH.
The computer pirates obtained control when exploiting a sophisticated method that involves a manipulated user interface (IU) and URL. This allowed attackers to alter the logic of the smart contract, redirecting the funds to an unidentified address. The stolen assets were divided through multiple wallets and exchanged in decentralized exchanges.
The Blockchain Zachxbt detective linked the trick with the Lázaro Group of North Korea, a piracy collective sponsored by the notorious state for cryptography robberies. Lázaro was behind several high -profile cryptographic attacks, including the Hack of the Ronin Network of $ 600 million in 2022, and a drain of $ 230 million in Indian Exchange Wazirx in 2024.
