Security teams at crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi labored collectively to freeze and recover 121 Bitcoin (BTC) from hackers driving the Harmony bridge exploit. 

In a tweet, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao introduced that the hackers have experimented with to launder their cash through the Huobi exchange. Just after this was detected by Binance, they contacted and assisted Huobi to freeze and recover the digital property deposited by the hackers.

We detected Harmony One particular hacker fund motion. They beforehand tried to launder by way of Binance and we froze his accounts. This time he used Huobi. We assisted Huobi team to freeze his accounts. Together, 124 BTC have been recovered. CeFi aiding to keep DeFi #SAFU!

— CZ Binance (@cz_binance) January 16, 2023

According to Zhao, the exchanges recovered a full of 121 BTC, which is believed to be worth all over $2.5 million at the time of writing. 

In a current write-up, on-chain crypto detective ZachXBT also highlighted prior to Binance and Huobi freezing and detecting the cash, the hackers behind the exploit have been going all over 41,000 Ether (ETH), really worth about $64 million in the final weekend. 

1/2 North Korea’s Lazarus Group experienced a very fast paced weekend transferring $63.5m (~41000 ETH) from the Harmony bridge hack via Railgun ahead of consolidating cash and depositing on a few distinctive exchanges. pic.twitter.com/huDumaJeSh

— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) January 15, 2023

In accordance to the crypto sleuth, after relocating the money, the hackers consolidated and deposited the digital belongings on three different crypto exchanges. However, the on-chain detective did not specify the names of the exchanges applied by the exploiters. 

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On Jun. 24, the Harmony staff detected the exploit, reporting $100 million in resources compromised. The hack highlighted fears previously introduced up by community customers all around some of the mutisigs securing the Horizon bridge.

On Jun. 30, the Lazarus Team, an infamous North Korean hacking group was discovered as a suspect guiding the $100 million Harmony hack. Blockchain assessment organization Elliptic famous that the way in which the hack was performed was similar to other Lazarus Team attacks. 

The Horizon bridge hack is one of the major exploits and hacks in 2022. Analysts consider that the Lazarus Group focused the worker login qualifications to breach Harmony’s protection method. The hackers then deployed laundering packages to shift the stolen assets.