Odaily reported that the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group, after attacking Bybit, has started converting some of the stolen assets into BTC. Data shows that the group now owns 13,562 BTC, worth about $1.14 billion, which has also caused North Korea's BTC holdings to continue to rise, surpassing those of El Salvador (6,117 BTC) and Bhutan (10,635 BTC), making it the third-largest government entity in terms of global BTC holdings, second only to the United States (198,109 BTC) and the United Kingdom (61,245 BTC). (News.bitcoin)