North Korean authorities arrested former military hackers accused of stealing state funds from two banks and laundering the proceeds through cryptocurrency. The group, according to a Daily NK report citing an anonymous source in Pyongyang, allegedly breached the internal systems of the Central Bank of the DPRK and Foreign Trade Bank, diverted foreign currency and state trade funds, and moved the money into overseas crypto wallets. The report could not be independently verified. Chinese brokers then converted the assets into U.S. dollars and yuan, Daily NK said. Contacts in the border cities of Sinuiju and Hyesan allegedly exchanged the crypto…
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