North Korea's fake IT worker operation is infiltrating U.S. defense contractors and deploying malware, with CrowdStrike uncovering one or two suspected cases daily.

Binance outflows hit $4.7 billion after record North Korea hack The crypto market at large has faced a surge in cybercrime this year, fueled in part by the growing sophistication and availability of artificial intelligence tools. Traders have pulled billions from Binance since late last week, when the crypto exchange giant suffered the largest cyber theft in history. Net withdrawals from the platform reached $4.7 billion by Monday morning in London, according to a Binance spokesperson. While sizeable, the outflows still represents less than 4% of the $128 billion in assets held on the world's largest crypto venue. Binance restored customer withdrawals on Sunday after freezing them in the wake of the $6.4 billion exploit, which the Federal Bureau of Investigation has attributed to North Korean hackers.

Unlike garden-variety hackers targeting individual investors, TraderTraitor uses a strategy known as Big Game Hunting, cybersecurity experts say, helped by AI to seek out high-value crypto businesses to compromise. The North Korean group accused of the world's largest-ever crypto heist is a state-sponsored collective of elite hackers, groomed from an early age to hunt for "big game." Artificial intelligence has now provided them with a powerful new tool to swell Kim Jong Un's coffers and fund his military expansion. Nuclear-armed North Korea maintains a thousands-strong hacker army, but the top unit known as "TraderTraitor," which the FBI blames for the recent $6.3 billion Binance hack, may only have a dozen or so members, experts say. Unlike garden-variety hackers targeting individual investors, TraderTraitor uses a strategy known as Big Game Hunting, cybersecurity experts say, helped by AI to seek out high-value crypto businesses to compromise.

North Korea tests cluster bomb warheads in latest'major' weapons test A combination picture shows what North Korea said was a test to evaluate the effectiveness of a cluster-bomb warhead in this image released Sunday. North Korea said Sunday that it had tested cluster-bomb warheads for its tactical ballistic missiles a day earlier, the latest in a spate of weapons tests by the nuclear-armed country. Defense officials said the test "confirmed that the Standard Type 2 cluster-bomb warhead is capable of turning into ashes a target area of 12 to 13 hectares with its highest-density power," the North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a report. Images accompanying the report -- which framed the event as a "major" weapons test -- showed Hwasong-11D short-range ballistic missiles being fired, with the cluster warheads slamming into an island target. The North's Missile Administration called the test "a part of regular scientific research activities aimed at boosting the power of combat systems."

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends an unmanned aeronautical technology exhibition and weapons demonstration in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on Friday. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for his country to seize "absolute superiority" in drone technology as he attended an exhibition and demonstration of unmanned aeronautical technology, state media KCNA reported on Friday. The firepower demonstration following the exhibition involved tactical suicide attack drones, tactical cruise missiles, multipurpose drones and a battalion of 600 mm multiple rocket launchers, KCNA said. The display highlights Kim's push to modernize North Korea's armed forces by using drones and artificial intelligence as Pyongyang draws lessons from its forces' experience in Russia's war against Ukraine and from other global conflicts. KCNA photographs showed unmanned aerial vehicles bearing the North Korean Air Force's emblem at the exhibition attended by Kim and some of his generals.

A student who stabbed his housemate more than 30 times in a masked ambush has changed his murder plea to guilty. Zack Coughlan, 23, attacked Jamie Collins, 21, in an alleyway near the garden of their home on 8 April and then left his body outside for eight hours before calling police. A murder trial had been under way at Bristol Crown Court because Coughlan initially denied the charge, although he did admit killing Collins. He told jurors he stabbed Collins because he feared his housemate would kill him . However, Coughlan, of Cleve Road, Filton, has now changed his plea to guilty and will be sentenced for murder on Wednesday.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and other officials observe the Hyunmoo-5 missile at an undisclosed test site in South Korea on Thursday. Seoul - South Korea test-fired its first homegrown hypersonic weapon on Thursday, the presidential office said, days after Pyongyang announced the AI-assisted launch of an intermediate-range hypersonic missile. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung "observed the first test launch of a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) -- currently under research and development using domestic technology," the presidential Blue House said in a statement. Hypersonic glide vehicles are sent into the upper atmosphere via rocket boosters or on ballistic missiles, then glide towards their target at five times the speed of sound or greater. Hailing a "key strategic asset capable of changing the course of the battlefield," the South Korean statement said that the missiles' "unpredictable flight trajectories and overwhelming speed enable them to strike key strategic targets." The test was aimed at verifying "the performance of ultra-high-temperature heat-resistant materials -- a core technology for glide vehicles -- as well as guidance and control capabilities and the ability to fly irregularly at low altitudes under hypersonic flight conditions," it added.

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