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Kieren Williams

North Korean hackers 'steal £2.4billion in crypto to fund ballistic missile programme'

North Korean hackers have allegedly stolen billions of pounds of crypto to fund their ballistic missile programme.

The dictatorship is said to be training criminals to impersonate tech workers and employers as apart of their sophisticated schemes that has seen them rake in a reported $3billion (£2.4billion).

The Wall Street Journal reported the story of an engineer from a blockchain gaming company who thought he was about to walk into a new better paid job, after a recruiter contacted him via LinkedIn.

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