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From embedded IT workers to smart contract malware, North Korea’s crypto attack methods are evolving faster than global defenses.
2025-12-30 14:31 | |
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U.S. Treasury targets a global network laundering crypto to fund North Korea's weapons programs, sanctioning key individuals and companies.
2025-8-28 11:37 | |
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TRM Labs says North Korean IT workers have laundered millions in USDC and USDT while secretly working for blockchain startups. North Korea continues to rely on crypto to quietly fund its weapons programs and the U.S. government is stepping up…
2025-7-17 17:25 | |
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As much as 920 North Koreans might have infiltrated crypto firms, under direction of the regime.
2025-7-3 16:18 | |
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Paradigm security researcher Samczsun is raising concerns that North Korea’s cyber operations extend far beyond the notorious Lazarus Group. His warnings come as the crypto industry emerges from the recent Bybit hack, which reportedly involved a sophisticated compromise of SafeWallet…
2025-4-1 20:51 | |
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OFAC says a front company in the UAE had been converting crypto into cash for North Korea.
2024-12-17 19:31 | |
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ZachXBT uncovered a North Korean crypto network with $300K-$500K monthly earnings. Investigation revealed complex laundering schemes and connections to OFAC-sanctioned individuals. In a receThe post Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT unveils North Korea’s secret crypto empire appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2024-8-16 18:30 | |
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Theft of crypto and other forms of cyber espionage have been a key source of income for North Korean hackers, whose country of origin is in a chronic financial crisis and is virtually blocked off from the global market.
2023-1-24 11:32 | |
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South Korea’s National Intelligence Agency (NIS) reportedly revealed that state-sponsored North Korean hackers stole $1. 2 billion worth of crypto assets in the last five and a half years and the country has been using these funds to finance its nuclear missile program.
2022-12-22 19:30 | |
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North Korean hacker group Lazarus has reportedly launched multiple cyber-attacks against Japanese crypto exchanges, according to Japan News. The post North Korean Lazarus Group targets Japanese crypto firms appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-10-17 17:05 | |
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North Korea is facing a cash crisis after its stash of stolen crypto assets was greatly devalued by the ongoing market-wide sell-off.
2022-7-4 17:56 | |
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North Korea has always hogged the headlines – not only for its “habitual” firing of ballistic missiles (which irks Uncle Sam and his allies) – but also for its passion for (allegedly) stealing other countries’ crypto.
2022-2-10 07:42 | |
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North Korea has allegedly stolen over $1. 7 billion worth of crypto from exchanges over several years, South Korean media outlets report. The country has been using hackers to target individuals and companies from various parts of the world.
2021-12-30 11:32 | |
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In this episode, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson discuss North Korea reportedly stealing your crypto to create nuclear weapons, Tesla rattling markets at an opportune time and Nigeria trying to ban crypto.
2021-2-15 12:00 | |
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U.N. experts estimate that over $316 million in crypto was stolen by North Korea-linked hackers last year.
2021-2-10 18:19 | |
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Two Chinese crypto exchanges allegedly lost millions of dollars to North Korean hackers.
2020-8-28 23:09 | |
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Recent reports by the South Korean press warned that North Korea might be expanding its crypto social media monitoring. Yesterday’s report by NK Economy claims that North Korean firm Marine Chain is actively keeping an eye on leading names in the crypto and blockchain space This would not have mattered for most other companies, but for Marine Chain, it has a particular significance.
2019-12-7 11:47 | |
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Bitcoin Can Help Kim Avoid Sanctions In a recent U. N. Security Council meeting, a panel of industry experts claimed that North Korea could have upwards of $670 million worth of currencies that isn’t the nation.
2019-3-9 03:49 | |
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The U.N. Security Council has heard that North Korea uses cyberattacks and blockchain technology to evade economic sanctions and obtain foreign currency. Through hacking, the reclusive Republic has raked in around $670 million in foreign exchange and cryptocurrency, a panel of experts told the Security Council’s North Korea sanctions committee, ahead of the council’s annual […] The post UN Panel: North Korea Hacked $571M From Asian Crypto Exchanges appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-3-9 23:25 | |
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North Korea has Cryptocurrency. A lot of it. In a piece from Nikkei Asian review, it was reported that experts have testified to the UN that Kim Jong Un’s regime is sitting upon more than half a billion US dollars’ worth of Crypto.
2019-3-9 18:55 | |
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A report presented to the U.N. Security Council claims that North Korean hackers obtained $670 million in crypto and foreign fiat from 2015 to 2018
2019-3-9 17:35 | |
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A U.N. Security Council panel has linked North Korea to millions lost in cryptocurrency hacks, Nikkei Asian Review reports.
2019-3-8 15:15 | |
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Crypto markets continue upwards; Binance Coin and Litecoin on a rip, ABBC Coin surges out of nowhere. Market Wrap Crypto markets have continued their upward momentum today as further gains are added.
2019-3-7 10:00 | |
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Coinbin, a South Korean crypto exchange, declared bankruptcy on February 22, 2019, citing foul play from inside the company. Business Korea reported on Coinbin’s recent failure, claiming that the company had lost $26 million as a result of theft and the subsequent bankruptcy declaration.
2019-2-27 23:13 | |
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Wealth manager Carol Pepper says cannabis stocks are the next “huge growth area” in alternative investing. With an actual physical product, pot stocks could soar like Bitcoin in 2017, but unlike the cryptocurrency, they won’t follow that boom with a bust.
2019-2-23 03:33 | |
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We took a tour of the Museum of Bitcoin, a pop-up installation at The North American Bitcoin Conference 2019. It was a trip down memory lane.
2019-2-9 15:00 | |
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We took a tour of the Museum of Bitcoin, a pop-up installation at The North American Bitcoin Conference 2019. It was a trip down memory lane.
2019-2-11 15:00 | |
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It has become abundantly apparent that the Bitcoin crash-induced crypto winter hasn’t managed to seduce bears. The crash in the broader cryptocurrency market, which sent investors running en-masse, has resulted in a number of layoffs at this (not so) budding sector’s most preeminent firms.
2019-2-5 16:02 | |
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Mike Novogratz — the CEO of cryptocurrency merchant bank Galaxy Digital — admits that the Crypto Winter will probably last longer than he had anticipated. However, the Goldman Sachs alum still believes that institutional investors will eventually enter the market, and remains an avowed bitcoin bull.
2019-2-4 18:50 | |
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Основатель и CEO инвестиционной компании Galaxy Digital Майк Новограц заявил, что по-прежнему верит в рост биткоина, однако случится это, по его мнению, не ранее чем через несколько месяцев. Об этом он написал в Twitter.
2019-2-3 12:05 | |
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Novogratz Doesn’t Expect Bitcoin To Head North For A Few More Months Mike Novogratz, a Wall Street legend with decades of experience as an institutional hotshot, made a full transition into Bitcoin (BTC) just years ago, as he saw a potential that was reminiscent of that seen during the early Internet.
2019-2-2 04:44 | |
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Germany has one of the highest concentrations of Bitcoin (BTC) nodes, as North America and Europe become prominent regions for securing the network against double spends. Data collected by cryptocurrency statistics site Bitnodes found that Germany accounts for just under a fifth of all reachable BTC nodes.
2019-1-23 20:02 | |
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Several of South Korea’s top crypto exchanges have found themselves in hot water, with executives at a couple of exchanges facing criminal charges and jail time. According to a news report on the Korean website Blockinpress, the CEO of Komid, a Korean crypto exchange, has received a three-year prison sentence for committing fraud against investors by artificially inflating the exchange’s actual trading volume.
2019-1-23 00:57 | |
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As part of its commitment to the international crypto community, Coinbase, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in North America announced on Jan. 22 that its professional trading and custody platforms are available to its Asian-based institutional clients and high-volume businesses.
2019-1-22 17:49 | |
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Blockchain startup OB1, the developers of decentralized shopping platform OpenBazaar, have announced Haven, a privacy-focused app for socializing with friends and making purchases with cryptocurrencies.
2019-1-19 00:57 | |
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Every year, US citizens spend north of $70 billion on state lottery tickets. That’s almost $8 billion more than the entire market cap of Bitcoin. And more than half of the entire crypto market as a whole.
2019-1-16 11:00 | |
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It looks like the future of BitMEX in North America is bleak. The Block Crypto has recently reported that BitMEX, which is a trading platform that was created to facilitate futures trading with cryptos (mostly Bitcoin) has been on the target of financial regulators from Canada. This has made the company close the accounts in […]
2019-1-15 19:25 | |
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The excitement surrounding this week’s Constantinople hard fork has provided a much-needed boost for the Ether (ETH) price. Trading volumes suggest recent movements have been fueled by investors based in Europe and North America.
2019-1-15 18:15 | |
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A combination of cheap electricity and cold weather has started to draw a growing number of Japanese bitcoin miners to Mongolia, a country sandwiched between China to the south and Russia to the north.
2019-1-12 08:05 | |
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Regal Assets is one of North America’s most trusted alternative investment firms. The company has recently announced it was expanding its service to support Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) for Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) Canadian investors According to reports, Regal Assets, a firm that specializes in offering alternative investment services for retirement account holders, has officially announced it was opening.
2019-1-10 04:00 | |
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While most crypto investors are shooting for the moon, Blockstream is focused on things a bit closer to Earth: in the outermost layer of its atmosphere, to be exact.
2018-12-18 00:31 | |
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It’s eight in the morning in Kinangop, a small rural town 55 miles north of Nairobi. For Joseph Kimani, a small-scale farmer, today is a big day. Kimani has been a farmer for two decades, but finding a market for his products has been a constant thorn in his side.
2018-12-15 18:57 | |
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Cryptocurrency mining software could be used to steal corporate secrets according to new research from threat researcher Troy Kent. Kent, who works for Awake Security presented his research at the InfoSecurity North America Conference in New York earlier this month.
2018-12-4 13:59 | |
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G20 agrees to regulate crypto, Italian court turns away crypto business, Estonia tightening regs, and Wyoming committee approves blockchain banking. Plus, North Korea makes it personal.
2018-12-3 19:30 | |
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North Korea Still In Love With Bitcoin, Crypto Due to the decentralized, borderless, and censorship-resistant nature of Bitcoin and related technologies, North Korea, the world’s most well-known hermit state, has taken a liking to this decade-old innovation.
2018-12-2 00:26 | |
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In contrast with the bear market we have watched throughout the year it seems that cryptocurrency-related lawsuits have skyrocketed as far up to 300 percent, reports Dior, November 19, 2018. Crypto Lawsuits Go North While bitcoin continues to go south, the business for digital currency focused lawyers looks to have a bright future ahead.
2018-11-23 16:00 | |
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SEC and Bitcoin Cash Wars take their toll on the market, North Korea to host blockchain conference week, New York sim swapper arrested for $ 1 million crypto theft and Tron $1 million giveaway for developers.
2018-11-23 13:20 | |
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The U. S. state of North Dakota has issued a cease and desist order against a cryptocurrency operation imitating a fully licensed bank in Liechtenstein. This operation goes by the same name as the token announced by the bank.
2018-11-23 10:15 | |
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Italy’s financial regulator, the National Commission for Companies and the Stock Exchange (CONSOB), has warned against three cryptocurrency companies engaged in schemes to promote cryptocurrency mining and investments.
2018-11-22 06:10 | |
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North Korean threat actors are once again targeting cryptocurrency developers and professionals using live video calls on Zoom to dupe them into installing malware. Hackers based in North Korea are using compromised Telegram accounts and deep fake AI videos to…
In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, Strategy’s Michael Saylor rejected speculation about Bitcoin sales while affirming continued accumulation despite price declines. In other developments, the Justice Department secured multiple convictions for assisting North Korean cryptocurrency operations, and Ethereum…
North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group has been blamed for a $22.8 million crypto heist that crippled UK-registered exchange Lykke, forcing its shutdown and triggering investor lawsuits. The British Treasury’s sanctions office linked the state-backed hackers to thefts of Bitcoin, Ethereum,…
A compromised device from a North Korean IT worker has exposed the inner workings of the team behind the $680,000 Favrr hack and their use of Google tools to target crypto projects. According to on-chain sleuth ZachXBT, the trail began…
North Korean IT workers are using fake identities to infiltrate crypto firms and steal millions worth of digital assets through remote job scams, cybersecurity researchers at Google Cloud and Wiz have warned.
An Arizona woman and TikTok influencer has received a multi-year prison sentence for helping North Korean IT workers fraudulently secure remote jobs at over 300 U.S. companies. Christina Marie Chapman, 50, was sentenced to 102 months in prison by a…
Researchers at cybersecurity company Darktrace have warned that threat actors are using increasingly sophisticated social engineering tactics to infect victims with crypto-stealing malware. In its latest blog, Darktrace researchers detailed an elaborate campaign in which scammers were found to be…