According to researchers, targeting with a high level of capital helped North Korean hackers steal more than $ 2 billion (1.49 billion pounds) this year.
According to the United Nations of the United United United United United United Nations,
Over the past few years, employees from hacker teams, such as Lazarus Group, focused on attacking cryptocurrency companies on large theft of digital tokens.
But investigators in Elliptic Warn Research Company That the crypto -weary people are becoming more attractive goals, since they often lack safety measures used by enterprises.
Western security agencies say that stolen funds are used to finance nuclear weapons and development of North Korea missiles.
Dr. Tom Robinson, the main scientist in Elliptic, says that aiming on individuals, which is less likely to be disclosed, means that the true figure for the hacks made by North Korea may be even higher.
“Other thefts are probably not reported and remain unknown as the attributing cyber krazh North Korea is not an accurate science.”
“We know about many other thefts that share some distinctive signs of activity related to North Korea, but do not have sufficient evidence to be finally attributed,” he says.
The service of North Korea was processed for comments, but did not immediately answer. Previously, the regime denied what kind of participation in the hack.
Elliptic and other companies, such as Chainalysis, are able to track the movement of stolen means, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, following a public list of transactions on the blockchain.
Over the years, researchers have noticed patterns in methods and tools preferred by North Korean hackers.
Elliptic evaluates that in 2025, the year of 2025, he accepts the cumulative known value of cryptoaphthe, stolen up to more than $ 6 billion. USA.
North Korea does not disclose GDP numbers, but evaluates the UN that in 2024 the country earned $ 15.17 billion.
The worst hacking of the year attributed to North Korea occurred in February this year, when hackers Spent $ 1.4 billion from Crypto Exchange bybitField
In addition to BYBIT hacking in February, elliptical analysts attributed more than 30 other attacks to North Korea this year.
In July, 14 million dollars from 9 users were stolen in the attack on Woo X.
Another case led to 1.2 million dollars. The United States of digital coins stolen from Seedify.
Elliptic was privately worked with victims of other attacks, which are unnamed organizations and individuals for dozens, or even hundreds of millions.
The highest theft of cryptocurrency from an individual this year is $ 100 million.
This year, the activity overshadows the previous record of the regime set in 2022, when it is accused of theft of $ 1.35 billion in total.
In addition to the fruitful team in cybercrime, the regime is increasingly accused of operation Complex fake IT workers A program for attracting additional money and skirts of international sanctions.
