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LayerZero: The KelpDAO attack was carried out by a North Korean hacking group. The impact of this incident is limited to rsETH.
April 20, 2026
CoinFeed News
CoinFeed reported on April 20th that LayerZero issued a security incident statement on its X platform regarding KelpDAO, stating that KelpDAO had been attacked, resulting in losses of approximately $290 million. Initial indications suggest that the attack may have originated from a highly sophisticated state actor, most likely TraderTraitor, a subsidiary of North Korea's Lazarus Group. Because KelpDAO uses a single DVN setup, this incident is limited to its rsETH configuration and will not affect any other cross-chain assets or applications. This highly sophisticated attack targeted the downstream RPC infrastructure used by LayerZero Labs' DVN.