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Vol. 1 · Ed. 2026
CyberGlossary
Entry № 1055

Ronin Bridge Hack (2022)

Ronin Bridge Hack (2022) とは何ですか?

Ronin Bridge Hack (2022)A March 2022 attack on the Ronin Network bridge that drained ~$625 million in ETH and USDC — at the time the largest crypto bridge hack ever — attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group via compromise of validator keys.


The Ronin Network bridge was the cross-chain bridge supporting Axie Infinity, the popular play-to-earn game built by Sky Mavis on the Ronin sidechain. On 23 March 2022 attackers withdrew 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC (~US $625 million) from the bridge in two transactions. The bridge required signatures from 5 of 9 validator nodes to authorize withdrawals; investigators found that the attackers had compromised four Sky Mavis-controlled validator keys, plus a fifth controlled by the Axie DAO that Sky Mavis had been temporarily authorized to sign on behalf of months earlier — leaving the bridge with only one effective signer. Compromise was achieved via a spear-phishing PDF sent to a Sky Mavis engineer that delivered a backdoor on the engineer's machine. The U.S. Treasury OFAC and Chainalysis attributed the attack to North Korea's Lazarus Group (APT38). The Ronin incident reshaped Web3 security thinking: bridge designs concentrated trust in small validator sets are catastrophic single-points-of-failure, and even social-engineering-grade attacks on a single engineer can have nine-figure consequences.

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    The March 2022 Ronin attack ($625M) was attributed by U.S. Treasury OFAC to Lazarus Group via a phishing-driven compromise of validator nodes.

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    Subsequent bridge designs (Wormhole's Guardian set, LayerZero, Across) cite Ronin as the motivating example for moving away from small custodial validator sets.

よくある質問

Ronin Bridge Hack (2022) とは何ですか?

A March 2022 attack on the Ronin Network bridge that drained ~$625 million in ETH and USDC — at the time the largest crypto bridge hack ever — attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group via compromise of validator keys. サイバーセキュリティの Web3 とブロックチェーン カテゴリに属します。

Ronin Bridge Hack (2022) とはどういう意味ですか?

A March 2022 attack on the Ronin Network bridge that drained ~$625 million in ETH and USDC — at the time the largest crypto bridge hack ever — attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group via compromise of validator keys.

Ronin Bridge Hack (2022) はどのように機能しますか?

The Ronin Network bridge was the cross-chain bridge supporting Axie Infinity, the popular play-to-earn game built by Sky Mavis on the Ronin sidechain. On 23 March 2022 attackers withdrew 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC (~US $625 million) from the bridge in two transactions. The bridge required signatures from 5 of 9 validator nodes to authorize withdrawals; investigators found that the attackers had compromised four Sky Mavis-controlled validator keys, plus a fifth controlled by the Axie DAO that Sky Mavis had been temporarily authorized to sign on behalf of months earlier — leaving the bridge with only one effective signer. Compromise was achieved via a spear-phishing PDF sent to a Sky Mavis engineer that delivered a backdoor on the engineer's machine. The U.S. Treasury OFAC and Chainalysis attributed the attack to North Korea's Lazarus Group (APT38). The Ronin incident reshaped Web3 security thinking: bridge designs concentrated trust in small validator sets are catastrophic single-points-of-failure, and even social-engineering-grade attacks on a single engineer can have nine-figure consequences.

Ronin Bridge Hack (2022) からどのように防御しますか?

Ronin Bridge Hack (2022) に対する防御は通常、上記の定義で述べたとおり、技術的統制と運用上の実践を組み合わせます。

Ronin Bridge Hack (2022) の別名は何ですか?

一般的な別名: Axie Infinity hack, Sky Mavis Ronin breach。

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