North Korean hackers have stolen billions in crypto by posing as VCs, recruiters and IT workers | TechCrunch
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- North Korean hackers posing as recruiters and venture capitalists have raked in billions of dollars in stolen cryptocurrency over the past decade to fund the country’s nuclear weapons program
- Microsoft security researcher James Elliott said in a Cyberwarcon talk that North Korean IT workers have already infiltrated “hundreds’ of organizations around the world
A venture capitalist, a recruiter from a big company, and a newly hired remote IT worker might not seem to have much in common, but all have been caught as imposters secretly working for the North Ko [+6735 chars]