Blender.io

Cryptocurrency mixer company, whose service was used by North Korean cybercrime actors in 2022 to obfuscate funds gathered from cybercrime operations. US authorities sanctioned the company in May 2022. Industry reports identified Sinbad.io as a replacement for Blender.io, after the latter’s designation by the same Member State in 2022.

"and made high profile use of at least two mixers to launder the proceeds of the theft—Blender.io and Tornado Cash."; "used to launder illicit proceeds of the March 2022 Axie Infinity heist and the June 2022 Harmony heist, both of which were carried out by North Korea’s Lazarus Group."; "OFAC identified Conti and Sodinokibi as Russian-linked malign ransomware groups in their designation of Blender.io on May 6, 2022."