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Counterhacker exposes DPRK unit that made $1M a month working IT jobs

Apr 09, 2026 02:52 UTC

The North Korean IT workers coordinated crypto payments through a server using a shared, easy-to-guess password “123456.”.

  • The North Korean IT workers coordinated crypto payments through a server using a shared, easy-to-guess password “123456
  • ” Cointelegraph in your social feed A group of North Korean IT workers made more than $3
  • 5 million in just a few months by faking their identities to work as developers while also attempting to hack crypto projects, according to documents obtained by a hacker who compromised one of their devices

The North Korean IT workers coordinated crypto payments through a server using a shared, easy-to-guess password “123456.” Cointelegraph in your social feed A group of North Korean IT workers made more than $3.5 million in just a few months by faking their identities to work as developers while also attempting to hack crypto projects, according to documents obtained by a hacker who compromised one of their devices. The leaked data obtained by the unnamed hacker wassharedby blockchain sleuth ZachXBT in a post to X on Wednesday. It revealed that one of the IT workers, “Jerry,” and a team of 140 m

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