The amount of digital currency pilfered by nefarious North Korean hacking collectives continues to grow, and they’re increasingly turning to Russian exchanges to launder it.
The revelations come in the same week that Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un held military talks. The alarm has been raised over the DPRK’s evolving cybercrime tactics and sophisticated attacks used to fund its missile program.
It added that the prospect of recovering stolen funds from uncooperative Russian exchanges was “particularly grim.”
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