North Korea's leaders have made their nation into a lunatic famine-riddled basket case of a country, but rest assured they are still capable of doing some damage:
The FBI on Thursday blamed hackers associated with the North Korean government for stealing more than $600 million in cryptocurrency last month from a video gaming company -- the latest in a string of audacious cyber heists tied to Pyongyang.
"Through our investigation we were able to confirm Lazarus Group and APT38, cyber actors associated with the DPRK, are responsible for the theft of $620 million in Ethereum reported on March 29th," the FBI said in a statement...
The FBI was referring to the recent hack of a computer network used by Axie Infinity, a video game that allows players to earn cryptocurrency. Sky Mavis, the company that created Axie Infinity, announced on March 29 that unidentified hackers had stolen the equivalent of roughly $600 million -- valued at the time of the hack's discovery -- on March 23 from a "bridge," or network that allows users to send cryptocurrency from one blockchain to another.
It's quite hard to believe that anyone would voluntarily launch any sort of major criminal undertaking on behalf of Kim Jong Un, who is objectively one of the worst people in the whole world.
I guess if you're in North Korea, though, you either do what the government tells you or your entire village gets vaporized or something.
Still, it's worth noting that the North Korean Internet is... not that hard to hack in turn:
Shouldn't be that hard to get that $600m back!
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