US law firm accused of repeatedly applying for the seizure and freezing of crypto assets in hacking cases, using old North Korean case rulings as leverage.

CoinFeed reported on May 2nd that a US law firm representing the families of DPRK (North Korea) abduction/murder victims is applying to the court to seize funds related to the 2000 "Reverend Kim" abduction case, based on an old judgment issued in 2009. This application follows multiple Lazarus Group hacks where related crypto assets were frozen. On-chain analyst ZachXBT pointed out that the firm has repeatedly used its public on-chain traceability results in cases such as Harmony and Bybit to claim priority in recovering frozen assets. However, these claims are not directly related to the specific hacks themselves, delaying or even hindering the recovery of assets from genuine hacker victims.