The North Korean group accused of the world’s largest-ever crypto heist is a state-sponsored collective of elite hackers, groomed from an early age to hunt for “big game.”

Artificial intelligence (AI) has now provided them with a powerful new tool to swell Kim Jong-un’s coffers and fund his military expansion.

Nuclear-armed North Korea maintains a thousands-strong hacker army, but the top unit known as “TraderTraitor,” which the FBI blames for the recent US$6.3 billion Binance hack, might only have a dozen or so members, experts said.

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