Near Intents Attacker Address Interacts with North Korea's Lazarus-linked Address

PeckShield reported that the address of the attacker of Near Intents, a NEAR-based cross-chain intent protocol that suffered a $3.8 million hack, was observed interacting with addresses related to North Korean hacking group Lazarus Group. The attacker reportedly transferred the stolen funds to KuCoin and then bridged them to Bitcoin (BTC). Specifically, the attacker's address was confirmed to have interacted with an address (starting with 0x098B7) labeled as a North Korean Lazarus Group-related address.