North Korean hacker group infiltrates cloud systems through fake recruitment, may steal 1.6 billion dollars in Crypto Assets by 2025.

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[Chain News] On August 5, news emerged that according to research by Google Cloud and cybersecurity company Wiz, North Korean hacker organizations are infiltrating cloud systems through fake IT job offers, with an estimated theft of $1.6 billion in crypto assets by 2025. The research shows that the hacker group codenamed UNC4899 (also known as TraderTraitor, Jade Sleet, or Slow Pisces) impersonates recruiters on social media, luring target company employees to run malicious programs, successfully invading Google Cloud and AWS systems and hijacking crypto asset trading hosts. Wiz stated that TraderTraitor represents a type of threat activity rather than a specific group, with North Korean-supported entities Lazarus Group, APT38, BlueNoroff, and Stardust Chollima being typical masterminds behind TraderTraitor attacks.

This attack pattern has been evolving since 2020: initially using JavaScript to build malicious encryption applications, in 2023 it introduced exploits of open-source code vulnerabilities, and in 2024 it focused on attacking exchange cloud infrastructure, including an intrusion incident that caused a loss of $305 million to a Japanese trading platform. Experts point out that North Korean hackers were the first to adopt AI technology to generate phishing emails and malicious scripts, and their attack teams may number in the thousands.

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PessimisticOraclevip
· 08-05 01:00
Money can be stolen, bull!
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FarmHoppervip
· 08-05 00:50
Being hacked so badly and feeling powerless.
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Lonely_Validatorvip
· 08-05 00:46
Again and again, have you blackened my chain? Dizzy.
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