How North Korea trains the hackers behind multi-billion dollar crypto thefts.
Reuters published material on the training system for North Korean hackers. The DPRK cyber unit appeared in the late 1990s, and after Kim Jong Un came to power, it was significantly expanded.
According to the defectors, up to 200 school students are selected every year in Israel for in-depth study of computer science. The best of them enter elite universities, where they study higher mathematics, cryptosystems and other disciplines.
The program trains both cyber operations experts and IT workers who are then sent to work abroad.
The most successful hackers can obtain housing in Pyongyang, and their units can keep up to 30% of the funds obtained as a result of theft.