Blame on North Korea, the blame for a rise in the theft of encryption in 2025

The infiltrators stole more than two billion dollars in encryption during the first half of 2025, according to new data from the encryption analysis company, which represents the worst post -record to steal encryption.

Blockchain Analysis Company He said Thursday in a new report That the amount of $ 2.17 billion was stolen during the first half of 2025, already exceeded the amount of encryption lost last year. Not only that, but the amount of cryptocurrency that stolen during the first six months of 2025 was 17 % higher than the same period in 2022, which was previously the worst year on the record for stolen encryption.

A lot of stolen encryption this year is attributed to one breach of Crypto Exchange bybit, which he saw North Korean infiltrators steal more than $ 1.4 billion in encryptionMany of it It was later washed And it entered the North Korean system, for each Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“It has become increasingly central to the regime’s evasion strategies,” said the BYBIT series, which is part of a wider pattern of North Korean breakthroughs.

North Korea, which has been largely cut off from the outside world and the international banking system, has become a tremendous threat in recent years by targeting Western companies to steal the cryptocurrency in order to finance the approved nuclear weapons program. North Korea also has Depending on thousands of information technology workers for a distanceWho infiltrate technological companies to earn wages, theft of intellectual property, and then blackmail companies in paying so that their sensitive files are not published.

according to Previous whistle reportThe North Korean infiltrators were blamed in nearly two -thirds of all encryption breakthroughs during the year 2024.