The UN is reportedly investigating 35 North Korean cyberattacks across 17 countries, utilizing 3 main attack vectors.
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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by Thomas Simms
Naughty North Korea has stolen billions in crypto, India could be missing out on billions in crypto, and Litecoin’s halving disappoints.
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State-sponsored attacks on exchanges and banks generated considerable revenue under sanctions, new report claims.
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The personal computers of Coincheck employees have allegedly been found to have been infected by a virus associated with Russian hackers.
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Kik has launched a Defend Crypto campaign, while Facebook’s crypto coin could face some demographic challenges.
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A security firm analyzing the content of the emails believes a Pyongyang hacker group masterminded the scheme.
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A senior official warned U.S. measures were pressuring Pyongyang into finding illicit channels of income.
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by Thomas Simms
Terror groups are using crypto to move money between countries, a senior Russian intelligence official has claimed.
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by Thomas Simms
A sophisticated hacker is siphoning money from crypto wallets with weak private keys, according to a senior security analyst.
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American cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex said that claims of North Korean users trading on its platform are false.
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The purported North Korea-backed hacker group Lazarus is still targeting crypto, while adopting new techniques, according to a new report.
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The QuadrigaCX story gets stranger as the criminal past of one founder is allegedly revealed, while IBM gets more into blockchain.
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North Korean political dissident group Cheollima Civil Defence is selling Ethereum-based visas valid for entering the country after its supposed liberation.
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by Ana Berman
A U.N. Security Council report states that North Korean hackers obtained $670 million in crypto and foreign fiat from 2015 to 2018
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Researchers argue that the ransomware attacks thought to have earned hackers $3.7 million in BTC likely came from Russian cybercriminals.
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