Sjeverna Koreja cilja kripto razmjenu za financiranje raketnih programa: Izvještaj UN-a otkriva

North Korea stole more than $50 million in cryptocurrency between 2020 and mid-2021 to fund the country’s missile programmes, an excerpt from a United Nations report stated.

The North Korean cyber-napadi targeted at least three razmjene kriptovaluta in North America, Europe and Asia.

The report findings – reportedly handed to the UN’s Security Council North Korea sanctions committee – added that these attacks have played a major role in funding Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

“According to a member state, North Korean cyber actors stole more than $50 million between 2020 and mid-2021 from at least three cryptocurrency exchanges in North America, Europe and Asia,” the report stated.

According to Reuters, North Korea has long been banned from conducting nuclear tests and ballistic missile launches by the UN Security Council.

In 2019, the UN reported that Sjeverna Koreja had obtained an estimated $2 billion for missiles programmes using increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.

The UN report was released following a similar report on North Korea earlier by blockchain security firm Chainalysis.

According to January 17, 2022, a report from Blockchain.News, citing Chainalysis, North Korean hacks on the cryptocurrency platforms jumped from four to seven extracting nearly $400 million worth of digital assets over the last year.

"Od 2020. do 2021. broj hakova povezanih sa Sjevernom Korejom skočio je na sedam puta sa četiri, a vrijednost izvučena iz ovih hakova porasla je za 40%", navodi se u izvještaju koji je objavljen u četvrtak.

The report further added that the number of attacks was one of the most successful years on record.

Separately, various reports from February 2021 stated that the US charged three North Korean computer programmers with a massive hacking spree aimed at stealing more than $1.3 billion in fiat valuta i kriptovaluta.

The cyberattacks affected companies from banks to Hollywood movie studios, the Department of Justice of the U.S. said.

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