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The hackers stole more cryptocurrency in one attack than all the funds stolen by North Korean cyber criminals in 2024, when the rogue state’s cyber attackers made off with around $1.3bn in digital coins, according to cryptocurrency analysts Chainalysis.

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[-] PanArab@lemm.ee -2 points 4 days ago
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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 5 days ago

The record haul comes as Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s supreme leader, turns to elite units of computer hackers to prop up the Communist dictatorship’s failing economy.

I'm no apologist for NK, but this sentence is glaringly missing a nod to Western sanctions that caused the failing economy. It's mentioned some paragraphs later, but I can't not notice the subtle propaganda.

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