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Cyber-attacks by North Korea raked in $3bn to build nuclear weapons, UN monitors suspect
UN report is said to show that attacks on cryptocurrency-related companies helped development of dictatorship’s weapons programme
UN sanctions monitors are investigating dozens of suspected cyber-attacks by North Korea that raked in $3bn to help it further develop its nuclear weapons programme, according to excerpts of an unpublished UN report reviewed by the Reuters news agency. North Korean hacking groups subordinate to Pyongyang’s primary foreign intelligence agency reportedly continued with a high number of cyber-attacks, the sanctions monitors said. “The 2023 overall recorded trade volume surpassed the total for 2022, accompanied by the reappearance of a large variety of foreign consumer goods, some of which could be classified as luxury items,” the sanctions monitors wrote.
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