Threat actors from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are increasingly targeting the cryptocurrency sector as a major revenue generation mechanism since at least 2017 to get around sanctions imposed against the country. “Even though movement in and out of and within the country is heavily restricted, and its general population is isolated from the rest of the world, the regime’s ruling elite and its highly trained cadre of computer science professionals have privileged access to new technologies and information,”

Source: The Hacker News