State-backed North Korean hackers have stolen $1.5bn (£1.2bn) of cryptocurrency in the largest heist in history.

The hackers stole more cryptocurrency in one attack than all the funds stolen by North Korean cyber criminals in 2024, when the rogue state’s cyber attackers made off with around $1.3bn in digital coins, according to cryptocurrency analysts Chainalysis.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    67·
    5 hours ago

    The record haul comes as Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s supreme leader, turns to elite units of computer hackers to prop up the Communist dictatorship’s failing economy.

    I’m no apologist for NK, but this sentence is glaringly missing a nod to Western sanctions that caused the failing economy. It’s mentioned some paragraphs later, but I can’t not notice the subtle propaganda.

    • rbesfe
      112·
      5 hours ago

      Are you implying that we should be openly trading with NK and funding their government? Seriously?