North Korean crypto hackers bring home a third of the state’s total foreign currency revenue (Cybernews)

In a 138-page report on how the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is evading sanctions via cybercrimes, the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT), an international mechanism to report sanctions evasions, calculated that from January 2024 to September 2025, North Koreans stole $2.84 billion in crypto assets. What’s more, according to the MSMT, these heists accounted for approximately one-third of the DPRK’s total foreign currency revenue in 2024 (using the value of the stolen crypto assets at the time of theft and not accounting for any losses during laundering).

North Korea’s crypto scams fund third of its economy​ | Cybernews