20+ hour, 1+ min ago   (713+ words) The approach appears designed to bypass tighter screening of applicants suspected of being directly linked to North Korea. Foreign workers can handle interviews and other early stages of recruitment before positions are transferred to North Korean operatives once employment contracts…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (679+ words) The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network identified about $12.7 billion in financial activity tied to suspected cryptocurrency investment scams operated by overseas scam centers, showing the scale at which organized fraud networks are using digital assets to move money. FinCEN…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1256+ words) State-sponsored cryptocurrency theft has grown into a multibillion-dollar national security issue. North Korea’s hacking units have targeted exchanges, bridges, and DeFi protocols since 2017. The scale of their operations now exceeds any private criminal enterprise operating worldwide. The Lazarus Group sits…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (791+ words) The more useful question is therefore shifting from “What systems do we protect?” to “Which dependencies must remain trustworthy for a financial service to complete correctly?” That turns cybersecurity into a form of dependency-risk accounting: identifying the technical relationships behind…...