Tag: North Korea

North Korea’s Lazarus cybercrime group has been accused of carrying out a £17 million cryptocurrency theft from British-registered exchange Lykke, an attack described as one of the largest to hit a UK-based digital asset company. The claim was detailed in a recent report by The Telegraph, citing findings from the ...

North Korean threat actors are ramping up a sophisticated campaign of cyber theft targeting the cryptocurrency industry, using fake identities and remote job scams to infiltrate firms and siphon off millions of dollars in digital assets. Cybersecurity researchers at Google Cloud and cloud security firm Wiz have both issued separate ...

A TikTok influencer from Arizona has been sentenced to over eight years in prison for running an elaborate scheme that helped North Korean operatives secure remote tech jobs at hundreds of U.S. companies, threatening national security. Christina Marie Chapman, 50, received a 102-month prison sentence from a federal judge in ...

In a fresh move to curb North Korea’s covert cyber operations, the U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on two individuals and four entities accused of enabling malicious IT workers to penetrate American crypto firms. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on July 8 that it had sanctioned ...

Four North Korean nationals have been charged in Georgia with wire fraud and money laundering after allegedly infiltrating U.S. and Serbian blockchain companies as fake remote IT workers and stealing nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency, U.S. prosecutors revealed on Monday. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Kim Kwang ...

Kraken has exposed an elaborate infiltration attempt by a suspected North Korean hacker who posed as a job applicant for an engineering role, highlighting growing concerns over state-backed cyber threats in the digital asset industry. In a blog post, Kraken revealed how a seemingly routine recruitment process evolved into a ...

A subgroup of the North Korea-linked Lazarus hacker organization has been targeting unsuspecting users by setting up three fake crypto consulting companies. These shell companies, named BlockNovas, Angeloper Agency, and SoftGlide, are designed to distribute malware under the guise of job recruitment, according to a report from Silent Push, a ...

North Korea’s notorious hacker collective, Lazarus Group, has reportedly made a $2.51 million profit after selling 40.78 Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) acquired two years ago. Blockchain analytics platform SpotOnChain revealed that a wallet linked to Lazarus Group offloaded 40.778 WBTC—worth approximately $3.51 million—in exchange for 1,847 Ethereum (ETH). The sale took ...

North Korean-linked fraudulent tech workers are broadening their infiltration of blockchain firms beyond the United States, now targeting companies in the United Kingdom and Europe, according to a new report from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). Jamie Collier, an adviser at GTIG, revealed in an April 2 report that while ...

North Korea’s state-backed hacking group, Lazarus, has launched a fresh supply chain attack, injecting six malicious npm packages designed to steal credentials and exfiltrate cryptocurrency data. The campaign, uncovered by the Socket Research Team, leverages BeaverTail malware to infiltrate developers' systems and extract sensitive information. According to the researchers, the ...