Near Intents attacker address interacted with wallet linked to Lazarus Group

An attacker address tied to the $3.8 million hack of NEAR-based cross-chain intent protocol Near Intents showed signs of interacting with an address linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, PeckShield reported. The attacker was found to have transferred the stolen funds to KuCoin before bridging them into Bitcoin, while the address also had a record of interacting with a wallet labeled as tied to Lazarus Group that begins with 0x098B7.