North Korea Crypto News

The majority of $234 million stolen in the attack was already laundered. The recent movements involved funds that were dormant for 4.5 years.

Christopher Emms has been on the FBI's international wanted list for a number of years for his role in illegally providing cryptocurrency and blockchain services to North Korea.

The United Nations (UN) revealed in a confidential report that North Korea stole $630 million last year, according a Reuters article.

The new wallet received 463.82 WETH across five transactions and has remained dormant — without inflows or outflows for roughly an hour as of press time.

The FBI has come forward to announce that the North Korean hacking group Lazarus was responsible for last year's exploit.

Beyond plagiarizing resumes, researchers also discovered that some suspected North Koreans doctored qualifications when applying for jobs.

Elliptics says the strategies employed for the Harmony exploit are consistent with the ones used for the Ronin Bridge exploit a few months ago.

Chainalysis says North Korea’s unlaundered crypto holdings have dropped to $65 million due to the recent crypto market crash.

North Korean entities have dispatched thousands of skilled IT workers worldwide to get employment and generate funds for its missile program.

Arthur Cheong claims the North Korean government sponsors the hackers, making them resourceful and sophisticated.

Authorities in the US have blacklisted an Ethereum wallet containing over 100,000 units of the stolen funds.

Virgil Griffith was warned against attending a crypto conference in North Korea but he refused to heed the warning.

Mandiant, a cybersecurity company which was recently acquired by Google, released a report detailing some of North Korea's cyber operations and how the country is using hackers to raise money via theft of crypto assets.

North Korea’s Lazarus group sits on $170 million worth of stolen and unlaundered crypto assets.