North Korea Turns to Cryptocurrency Schemes in Global Heists, U.S. Says
The Justice Department unsealed an indictment Wednesday in opposition to two alleged contributors of North Korea’s military intelligence services, accusing them of hacking banks and corporations in extra than a dozen worldwide locations including the U.S. as fragment of a enormous-ranging blueprint to pick on $1.3 billion over the previous half-decade for Pyongyang.
North Korean hackers are increasingly more focusing their criminal exercise on the enviornment of cryptocurrency and occupy no longer too prolonged within the past built malicious cryptocurrency apps, launched ransomware assaults and promoted a false initial coin offering in pursuit of digital money, prosecutors talked about.
The unique indictment charged Jon Chang Hyok and Kim Il with the hacking a...
