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The infiltrators working in the North Korean government stole more than two billion dollars in encryption so far this year, According to the Blockchain analysis company.
On Tuesday, Al -Alailji Publish a blog post With this new estimate, which the company says is “the largest annual largest on the record, with a continuation of three months, and is based on more than 30 penetrations this year.
The previous record was in 2022, when North Korea stole $ 1.35 billion. The total amount of the system for the stolen encryption since 2017 is at least $ 6 billion, according to Al -Alailji, who said this number may still be less.
“The actual number may be higher. Supporting electronic thefts to North Korea is not an accurate science,” and reads the blog post.
“We are aware of many other thefts that share some distinctive features of North Korea’s activity but lack the adequate evidence that is permanently attributed to them. Other thefts are likely to be unknown and still unknown,” said the Haciter.
The company said that the main goals of North Korea are still the exchange of encryption, but the infiltrators in the regime also began targeting “high -value individuals”, who have large amounts of encryption.
The company said this is not the only last change.
“The majority of the breakthroughs were committed in 2025 through social engineering attacks, where infiltrators deceive or manipulate individuals in order to reach the encrypted currency,” read the blog post. “This represents a shift from the previous attacks, where technical defects have been used in many cases in the infrastructure for the theft of money. This shift highlights that the weak point in the security of the coded currency is increasingly, not technically.”
Al -Alilili’s estimate appears to be in line with other organizations. Last year, The United Nations Security Council estimated This is between 2017 and 2023, North Korean infiltrators stole $ 3 billion of cryptocurrencies. Adding Al -Alailji’s estimates for the year of $ 2 billion for this year, and 742.8 million dollars in recent years, the total is approaching the number of $ 6 billion.
Governments of Japan, South Korea and the United States He accused the North Korean infiltrators of theft More than 659 million dollars in 2024, almost the same number as Al -Alailji.
United Nations Secure The system, led by Kim Jong Un, uses the stolen encryption to finance the nuclear weapons program.
This year’s record has been fed mostly The tremendous theft of more than $ 1.4 billion in the stock exchange encryptionany Federal Bureau of Investigation And many Blockchain monitoring companies and researchers Tribal to North Korea.
Other victims of the infiltrators in North Korea in the world of encryption over the years were a game for playing Axi Infiniti ($ 625 million in 2022), Harmony Crypto Startup ($ 100 in 2022), and encryption exchange Ministerial (235 million dollars in 2024), among many other things.