Colleagues, under mounting political and economic pressure
from the US – and to lesser extent China and Russia – North Korea’s infamous Lazarus
Group appears to have cryptocurrency exchanges in the center of its
radar screen. The highly respected Group-IB
cyber intelligence firm reports that the DPRK was the source of some 14
cyber attacks targeting cryptocurrencies exchanges during the past
one and a half years yielding $571m
in illicit digital assets. Allow us to make two rather obvious
assumptions: One, the cash-starved North Korean government has no viable
exports other than the sale of rogue military hardware. Two, despite its
economic deprivation, the DPRK funnels as disproportionate level of the financial
resources it does have to the Lazarus Group’s cyber
warfare ventures. These assumptions lead us to a fundamental
question: How does North Korea use the crypto assets acquired by Lazarus? We
believe the answer is two-fold. First, to build and acquire the country’s
military arsenal. Second, the widespread and ongoing disinformation campaign
needed to prop-up the ill-fated Kim political dynasty. Post a comment today! Lawrence – Cryptocurrency Academy (https://cryptocurrencyacademy.blogspot.com/)
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