{"id":1046279,"date":"2026-11-02T07:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046279"},"modified":"2026-11-02T07:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:29:53","slug":"north-korean-hackers-linked-to-crypto-thefts-among-worlds-best-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/02\/north-korean-hackers-linked-to-crypto-thefts-among-worlds-best-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean hackers linked to crypto thefts among world&#8217;s best, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean hackers likely behind the record $6.3 billion theft from cryptocurrency exchange Binance are among the world&#8217;s most prolific crypto thieves, and the proceeds help fund the country&#8217;s weapons programs, cybersecurity experts said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Blockchain investigation firms TRM Labs and Chainalysis attribute the heist to a North Korean hacking group known as &#8220;TraderTraitor,&#8221; a name used in a 2022 joint warning from the FBI, CISA and US Treasury that described how hackers used malicious software and other tricks to target software developers and IT staff at cryptocurrency companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean hackers likely behind the record $6.3 billion theft from cryptocurrency exchange Binance are among the world&#8217;s most prolific crypto thieves, and the proceeds help fund the country&#8217;s weapons programs, cybersecurity experts said on Friday. Blockchain investigation firms TRM Labs and Chainalysis attribute the heist to a North Korean hacking group known as &#8220;TraderTraitor,&#8221; a name used in a 2022 joint warning from the FBI, CISA and US Treasury that described how hackers used malicious software and other tricks to target software developers and IT staff at cryptocurrency companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046300,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046279\/revisions\/1046300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}