Experts have said the country, facing heavy sanctions, is turning to crypto theft to fund its nuclear arsenal. North Korea has conducted six nuclear tests and analysts expect the seventh one this ...

The FBI said it intends to continue "to identify and disrupt North Korea's theft and laundering ... been accused of organizing the theft of $638 million in crypto assets through the Ronin ...

but both show that 2022 was a record-breaking year for DPRK (North Korea) virtual asset theft," the U.N. report said. A U.S.-based blockchain analytics firm last week reached the same conclusion.

More info Thank you for subscribing. The US government has claimed that North Korea was behind the theft of $100million (£88,028,000) from an American crypto-currency exchange last year ...

The hackers "shattered their own records for theft" in lifting roughly $1.7 billion worth of crypto, the blockchain analysis group said. "For context, North Korea's total exports in 2020 totalled ...

And for North Korea, a great fan of both ... making it the second-biggest crypto-theft ever. But as with all heists, the robbery is just the first step. To launder their loot North Korean hackers ...

S. Korea sanctioned 4 N. Korean individuals and 7 entities as part of its measures to counter illegal cyber activities The government also sanctioned 8 wallets linked to the Lazarus hacking group ...

Cyber hackers backed by North Korea carried out a theft of $1.7bn (£1.4bn) of crypto in 2022, taking the previous record of cryptocurrency threat up by at least four times, according to a report ...

North Korea-backed hackers stole $1.7bn (£1.4bn) of crypto in 2022, says blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. This nearly quadruples the country's previous record for cryptocurrency theft - $429m in ...