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    North Korea Launched Cryptocurrency Attacks in Response to Sanctions, Says FBI

    May 31, 2019 10:27:44 AM

    2019-05-30

    Cointelegraph: United States sanctions incentivized North Korea to launch cyberattacks involving cryptocurrency, a senior FBI official told a conference. The comments were quoted by South Korean English-language news outlet Korea Herald on May 30. Speaking at an event organized by U.S. thinktank The Aspen Institute, Tonya Ugoretz, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, said financial strain had driven North Korean state actors to cybercrime.....

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