North Korea behind the theft of $ 1.5 billion, says FBI

The Lazarus group gained notoriety a decade ago, when he was accused of hacked in Sony Pictures as revenge for the interview, a film that mocked the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

It was also assumed that it was behind the 2022 US $ 620 million in Ethereum and USD currency in the 2022 Ronin network, previously the largest crypto theft.

And in December, the United States and Japan blamed Cryptocurrency to over 300 million US dollars since the exchange of DMM Bitcoin, based in Japan.

The Cyber-Warfare program in North Korea dates at least in the mid-1990s, and the country was nicknamed the “most prolific Cyber-Henf-Thief” by a cybersacurized company.

Pyongyang’s program has grown at a 6,000 -year -old cyber war unit, known as office 121, operating from several countries, according to a US military report in 2020.

A United Nations Group on North Korean sanctions evasion estimated that the nation stole more than $ 3 billion in cryptocurrency from 2017.

Much of the hacking activity is directed by Pyongyang’s General Recognition Office, its main foreign information agency.

The stolen money helps to finance the country’s nuclear weapons program, the group said.