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North Korea stole $659 million in crypto assets last year, the US says

The US, Japan and South Korea issue a joint advisory warning the cryptocurrency industry about North Korean threat actors' ongoing cybercrime campaigns.

In their joint advisory, the countries said threat actor groups affiliated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) continue to stage numerous cybercrime campaigns to steal cryptocurrency. Those bad actors — including the Lazarus hacking group, which the US believes has been deploying cyber attacks all over the world since 2009 — target "exchanges, digital asset custodians and individual users." Back in 2022, the US issued guidelines on how to identify potential workers from North Korea, such as how they'd typically log in from multiple IP addresses, transfer money to accounts based in the People's Republic of China, ask for crypto payments, have inconsistencies with their background information and be unreachable at times during their supposed business hours.

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