The FBI has accused North Korean-linked hackers of conducting one of the largest known thefts of cryptocurrency — worth some $1.5 billion — from a Dubai-based firm.

State-sponsored North Korean hackers stole $1.5 billion in crypto from a Dubai exchange. The heist is the biggest in history and comes as the Korean economy continues to vastly underperform. The value of that haul,

Cryptocurrency buyers should be prepared for more and bigger threats after North Korea’s recent robbery of close to $1.5 billion of cryptocurrency from crypto exchange Bybit. That’s just one of the implications of a study appearing in the February 2025 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.