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North Korea's Secret Weapon: Kim Jong UN Turns Children Into Cyber-Warriors, the Rewards Are Apartments and Millions

North Korea rewards its best hackers, who are responsible for heists such as the attack on the Binance crypto exchange, in which as much as $6.3 billion was stolen.
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Topic of interest: North Korea is training hackers on a national scale; 200 middle school students selected; if an attack is successful, an apartment will be built in Pyongyang. https://t.co/LFJjyALCoU Some of the top performers will go on to university, and a select few will join the military.

·Japan
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North Korea rewards its most performing hackers with spacious apartments in Phenian, huge amounts in currency and privileges reserved for the regime's elite. According to an investigation by Reuters, published by South China Morning Post, these specialists are involved in large-scale cyber attacks, including the theft of $6.3 billion cryptocurrency attributed to North Korean hackers [...]

North Korea rewards its best hackers, who are responsible for heists such as the attack on the Binance crypto exchange, in which as much as $6.3 billion was stolen.

The authorities take away up to 200 schoolchildren every year, and the successful hackers promise apartments in Pyongyang and a share of the stolen money

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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In North Korea, the formation of state hackers begins from college. Every year, up to 200 children would be selected to integrate an elite sector, where the best can expect considerable privileges. A system that feeds the regime's cyber attacks, suspected of being behind Binance's record hacking. L-article North Korea: How the regime recruits its future hackers from 11 years old has appeared first on Cryptoast.

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Cryptoast broke the news on Saturday, November 7, 2026.
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