North Korea stole $2.57b of crypto this year, report says
North Korean hackers stole a record US$2 billion (S$2.57 billion) of crypto this year, researchers said, a sharp jump from 2024 that underscores the country’s growing ability to pull off massive heists.
Much of the total comes from the
largest digital heist in the history of cryptocurrency in February
, when North Korean hackers took US$1.5 billion from the Bybit crypto exchange, according to a report from blockchain analytics company Chainalysis. That incident helped boost the country’s estimated crypto spoils to at least US$6.75 billion since the records began, the research group said.
North Korea “continues to pose the most significant nation-state threat to cryptocurrency security”, the report said. Its haul from crypto theft…
