KANDYKORN malware use by North Korean hackers targeting digital asset exchange engineers
Hackers from Lazarus Group from North Korea posed as macOS engineers and convinced actual engineers to download the malware and infect the exchange in April.
Latest North Korea News
North Korean hackers funneling stolen tokens through Russian exchanges
North Korea shows no sign of slowing its ‘crypto’ hacking operations and is increasing its use of Russian digital asset exchanges to launder its ill-gotten gains.
CoinEx $55M attack reveals North Korea’s Lazarus Group cyber espionage
Lazarus Group, linked to a $55 million CoinEx hack, exposed its trail, with experts tracking their cybercrime spree, now exceeding $1 billion.
South Korea seeks to track, freeze North Korean digital assets with revised bill
The bill aims to cut the funding of Pyongyang's weapons programs through digital assets following the consultations of South Korean government ministries to bolster its sanctions against the North.
Geographical aspects of cybercrime: A literature review
In this paper, Dr. Craig Wright aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the diverse aspects related to cybercrime, including its historical context, demographic and geographic dimensions, environmental influences, and preventive strategies.
Tornado Cash founders charged in $1 billion money laundering scheme, including for North Korea
The two co-founders of the Ethereum-based mixer Tornado Cash were charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with money laundering and sanction violations after they allegedly helped launder $1 billion.
Atomic Wallet investors in Russia files for lawsuit over $100M hack: report
The group of investors from Russia who lost $12 million are suing Atomic Wallet for failing to inform them or the authorities about the $100 million hack.
North Korean hackers, fake pizza guys out to steal your tokens
A state-sponsored North Korea hacking group reportedly broke into the systems of JumpCloud, a Colorado-based IT management firm that helps network administrators manage devices and servers, according to Reuters.
Atomic Wallet sued for $100 million in wake of North Korea hack
Atomic Wallet users claimed that the platform and its CEO, Konstantin Gladych, knew about the system's vulnerability as early as 2022 but failed to take appropriate action, which led to huge losses.
Atomic Wallet hack sees North Korea’s Lazarus Group pocketing $100M: report
Atomic Wallet was hacked earlier this month in an attack it claimed only affected 1% of users, and Elliptic reports that the Lazarus Group is laundering the money through the Garantex exchange.
North Korea stole $1.2 billion from Japan, Vietnam: Elliptic
Japan accounted for 30% of digital assets stolen globally, and Elliptic’s research traced them to Lazarus Group, the hacking group with links to North Korea.
Sanctions, Russia and ‘crypto crime’
After Russia invades Ukraine, sanctions are back on the agenda, and when it comes to getting around them, misuse of digital assets appears to be essential.