{"id":133592,"date":"2022-01-05T05:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T13:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/north-korea-has-hacked-1-7-billion-worth-of-cryptocurrency-from-exchanges-considers-it-a-long-term-investment"},"modified":"2022-01-05T05:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T13:22:37","slug":"north-korea-has-hacked-1-7-billion-worth-of-cryptocurrency-from-exchanges-considers-it-a-long-term-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/north-korea-has-hacked-1-7-billion-worth-of-cryptocurrency-from-exchanges-considers-it-a-long-term-investment","title":{"rendered":"North Korea has hacked $1.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency from exchanges, considers it a long-term investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-korea-has-hacked-1-7-billion-worth-of-cryptocurrency-from-exchanges-considers-it-a-long-term-investment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>North Korea has hacked USD 1.7B of crypto and views the loot as a \u2018long-term investment\u2019. Experts say that Pyongyang is going long on its take of tokens, rather than quickly trading them for cash.<\/p>\n<p><b>North Korea\u2019s crypto exchange attacks<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/newsis.com\/view\/?id=NISX20211207_0001679470\">Newsis<\/a> and Chosun, the US federal government prosecutor issued statements saying that North Korean hackers have been \u201cconspiring with other money-laundering criminals\u201d to \u201csteal crypto-assets\u201d from at least \u201cthree digital asset exchanges\u201d before \u201claundering the proceeds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has hacked USD 1.7B of crypto and views the loot as a \u2018long-term investment\u2019. Experts say that Pyongyang is going long on its take of tokens, rather than quickly trading them for cash. North Korea\u2019s crypto exchange attacks According to Newsis and Chosun, the US federal government prosecutor issued statements saying that North [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}