By Byun Duk-kun
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (Yonhap) — The White Home emphasised the necessity to improve cyber safety on Friday, highlighting cyber thefts dedicated by North Korean actors.
It mentioned poor cybersecurity has allowed North Korea to steal over US$1 billion in cryptocurrency.
“Some cryptocurrency entities ignore relevant monetary rules and primary danger controls—practices that shield the nation’s households, companies, and financial system,” it mentioned in a press launched, titled, “The Administration’s Roadmap to Mitigate Cryptocurrencies’ Dangers.”
“And there may be poor cybersecurity throughout the trade that enabled the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea to steal over a billion {dollars} to fund its aggressive missile program,” it added.
Anne Neuberger, deputy nationwide safety advisor on the White Home for cyber and rising applied sciences, earlier mentioned Pyongyang is believed to finance some 30 p.c of its illicit weapons packages with proceeds from unlawful cyber actions.
“North Korean malicious cyber exercise is of great concern. You noticed we attributed numerous North Korean cyber assaults towards cryptocurrency infrastructure that we imagine netted North Korea huge sums of cash,” Neuberger has mentioned.
The U.S. has mentioned a North Korean hacker group, Lazarus, stole almost $620 million from on-line sport Axie Infinity in one of many single largest cyber theft circumstances in 2022.
bdk@yna.co.kr
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