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North Korea's hackers supercharge crypto heists with AI skills

The North Korean group accused of the world's largest-ever crypto heist is a state-sponsored collective of elite hackers, groomed from an early age to hunt for "big game."

The Star Malaysia2026-11-03 09:00查看原文 ↗

Unlike garden-variety hackers targeting individual investors, TraderTraitor uses a strategy known as Big Game Hunting, helped by AI to seek out high-value crypto businesses to compromise. — Pexels

The North Korean group accused of the world’s largest-ever crypto heist is a state-sponsored collective of elite hackers, groomed from an early age to hunt for "big game.” Artificial intelligence (AI) has now provided them with a powerful new tool to swell Kim Jong Un’s coffers and fund his military expansion.

Nuclear-armed North Korea maintains a thousands-strong hacker army, but the top unit known as "TraderTraitor”, which the FBI blames for the recent US$6.3bil (RM25.64bil) Binance hack, may only have a dozen or so members, experts say.

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