North Korean hackers used artificial intelligence to steal $6.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency from Binance From 2017 to 2023, North Korean hackers earned Kim Jong Un about $3 billion, of which he transferred about 40% to a weapons of mass destruction program, according to a UN report. But last week, the North Korean regime's elite hacking group, Traderbog, stole more than twice that amount in 20 minutes, stealing $6.36 billion in assets from the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance. Artificial intelligence helped them with this, writes Bloomberg. TraderBug is looking for big loot and has started using artificial intelligence to hack major crypto companies, cyber security experts say. After choosing one of them as a target, hackers investigate its infrastructure, "and then interfere with its operation or the transfer of funds to carry out a large-scale theft," explains Park Sung-soo, a threat researcher at cyber security company Zscaler. Thanks to new artificial intelligence tools, the barriers to such transactions "have been significantly reduced and the speed of completion increased dramatically," he adds. More details.