North Korea carried out at least seven attacks on cryptocurrency platforms that extracted nearly $400 million worth of digital assets in 2021, the report says.
North Korea continued to advance its nuclear and missile programs last year as it gained significant profits from cyberattacks, a UN reports said. “According to a member state, DPRK cyberactors stole more than $50 million between 2020 and mid-2021 from at least three cryptocurrency exchanges in North America, Europe and Asia,” Yonhap News Agency quoted the confidential report by the UN panel of experts monitoring the implementation of sanctions on Pyongyang.
