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North Korea stole over $659M in crypto heists during 2024, deploys fake job seekers | TechCrunch

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North Korean hackers stole at least $659 million through multiple cryptocurrency heists in 2024 , Japan , South Korea and the U.S. governments say.

The Lazarus Group conducted social engineering attacks and deployed cryptocurrency-stealing malware like TraderTraitor to breach exchanges.

North Korean IT workers pose as job candidates to infiltrate companies as insider threats, they say.

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