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North Korea steals $1.5bn as it pulls off world’s biggest ever heist (www.aol.com)

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The hackers stole more cryptocurrency in one attack than all the funds stolen by North Korean cyber criminals in 2024, when the rogue state’s cyber attackers made off with around $1.3bn in digital coins, according to cryptocurrency analysts Chainalysis.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can’t people just stop trading that specific coin? Or just say it’s now worth 1$?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm impressed. As the old Arabic poem goes ليتني كوري شمالي

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

love that bit about nuclear attack on new york

what's your favorite bit?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The record haul comes as Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s supreme leader, turns to elite units of computer hackers to prop up the Communist dictatorship’s failing economy.

I'm no apologist for NK, but this sentence is glaringly missing a nod to Western sanctions that caused the failing economy. It's mentioned some paragraphs later, but I can't not notice the subtle propaganda.

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