The FBI announced that the North Korean hacking unit TraderTraitor was behind the largest digital heist in history: the theft of $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Binance says it has already covered 95% of the losses with its own funds and resumed withdrawals on Sunday. But one major question remains: Who exactly is the group that has stolen sums approaching the budgets of entire countries in just four years?
TraderTraitor has no office, spokesperson or website. It is the name the U.S. government has given to the operations of a North Korean hacking group that specializes almost exclusively in one thing: stealing cryptocurrency. Each cybersecurity company uses a different name for the group….
