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A fraudulent ICO and malicious crypto apps where just part of the North Korean-backed effort to steal over $1 billion.

U.S. accuses three North Koreans of conspiring to steal more than $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrency Ellen Nakashima The Justice Department unsealed charges Wednesday against three North Koreans accused of conspiring to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrency from banks and businesses around the world. The indictment builds upon 2018 charges brought against one of the alleged hackers in connection with the North Korean regime’s 2014 cyber...

US indicts North Korean hackers for stealing $1.3 billion By The U.S. Department of Justice has charged three North Koreans for stealing $1.3 billion in money and cryptocurrency in attacks on banks, the entertainment industry, cryptocurrency companies, and more. The defendants are state-sponsored North Korean hackers and members of Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) units, a North Korean military intelligence agency that has engaged in criminal hacking operations. "These North Korean military...

The indictment builds upon 2018 charges brought following the North Korean cyberattack against Sony Pictures.

<p><span>A federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently market a blockchain platform.</span></p>