Us Doubles Reward For Information On North Korean Hackers

[✨ Megiddo]

Now, you can get up to $10 million for valuable information about members of state-owned North Korean groups

using computers, you may be eligible for a reward,” the US State Department said on Tuesday. The following groups were mentioned in the statement:

• Andariel ;

• APT38 ;

• Bluenoroff ;

• Guardians of Peace ;

• Kimsuky ;

• Lazarus .

The increased bounty will be added to another bounty announced in March this year. At that time, the US State Department offered up to $5 million for information about government hackers from the DPRK who are attacking cryptocurrency exchanges and financial institutions around the world.

Recall that the largest hacking of crypto exchanges in history was associated with North Korean state hackers. The FBI linked the incident to Lazarus and Bluenoroff, saying they were responsible for stealing $620 million in Ethereum from Axie Infinity.
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