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North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un greeting children in 2024.

‘This is the mafia’ — How North Korea structures its IT workers like an organized crime syndicate

The North Korean IT workers scheme rakes in $250 million to $600 million per year and billions in crypto, according to UN estimates.

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Europol warns AI is making organized crime ‘more precise and devastating’ because it’s able to create ‘highly realistic synthetic media’ that propagates violence and normalizes corruption

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The Medusa ransomware that locks up people’s data and demands crypto to release it is back and spreading, the FBI warns

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Former FBI agent thought he had seen it all in cybercrime. Then he became a corporate executive in charge of information security

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March 11, 2025
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