North Korea took US$2bn in cyberattacks to fund weapons program: UN report

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"Widespread and increasingly sophisticated" cyberattacks steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges.

North Korea took US$2bn in cyberattacks to fund weapons program: UN report
North Korea has generated an estimated US$2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programs using "widespread and increasingly sophisticated" cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a confidential UN report seen by Reuters on Monday. Pyongyang also ...

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