North Korea’s New Superpower: AI
There’s a change coming to crypto crime, and North Korea’s state-backed hackers are in the vanguard.
There’s no longer any need for dozens of expensively educated programmers to analyze blockchain code and smart contracts for vulnerabilities, it’s now possible to set AI to the task, according to Kostas Kryptos Chalkias, co-founder and chief cryptographer of Mysten Labs.
Large language models represent a greater threat to the industry than quantum computing, which potentially would work so fast that the encryption algorithms used become obsolete. Pyongyang’s cyber units, responsible for stealing an estimated $2 billion in crypto already this year, have begun integrating large language models into nearly every stage of their attacks:…
