Analysis
North Korea’s record-breaking Bybit hack changed how exchanges handle security and even influenced FATF’s global crypto recommendations.
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North Korea News
North Korea, officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is an East Asian country on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea’s population is over 25 million people, 1.21 million of which are active-duty soldiers. North Korea is under the rule of its leader Kim Jong-un, who is considered to have the most human rights violations in the contemporary world. North Korean laws made its economy heavily nationalized, which even led to a refusal of a taxation system. North Korean Bitcoin policies are yet to be officially established as their nationalized economy, closed borders, anti-human mobility laws and censorship of the internet all make it extremely hard for North Koreans to have some use for Bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies, as a money without central authority and high anonymity, violate North Korean laws that were not established specially for blockchain-based technologies, but previous laws crafted for other purposes.
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Hacken said Web3 losses rose to almost $4 billion in 2025, with North Korea behind more than half; regulators are currently under pressure to turn security guidance into hard rules.
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Concerns about code vulnerabilities are fading in the crypto space, but more sophisticated scam tactics are emerging as protocol security improves.
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Three major incidents accounted for the majority of crypto losses in 2025, while upgraded security across DeFi protocols managed to keep hackers at bay, according to Chainalysis.
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Security researcher Taylor Monahan warns that hackers have already stolen over $300 million from this method. Here’s what to do if you are caught in their scam.
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New technologies, such as artificial intelligence, will only make bad actors more efficient and their attacks more sophisticated in 2026, cybersecurity company AhnLab predicts.
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Democratic senators are urging a probe into WLFI over alleged token sales to North Korea- and Russia-linked wallets, while researchers say some claims stem from false positives.
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Ethereum smart account wallet platform SafeWallet has rearchitected its systems in the wake of the infamous $1.5 billion theft of ETH from Bybit.
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North Korea is recruiting freelancers as identity proxies to score remote contracts and bank accounts, according to new cyber intelligence research.
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The $116 million Balancer exploit appears to have been months in the making, with the attacker utilizing Tornado Cash and advanced methods to evade detection.
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"EtherHiding" deploys in two phases by compromising a website, which then communicates with malicious code embedded in a smart contract.
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Changpeng Zhao’s warning highlights a resurgence of threats from state-backed hacking groups, such as the North Korean Lazarus Group.
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AI threat detection and enhanced wallet management may save crypto firms from North Korean infiltrators, cybersecurity experts told Cointelegraph.
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Binance co-founder warned about North Korean hackers after the white hat SEAL team uncovered the profiles and fake names of 60 impersonators.
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Learn how a North Korean group used 31 fake identities to infiltrate crypto firms and steal $680,000 from Favrr. Inside their tools, tactics and deception.