North Korea has is using cybercrime tactics to boost its economy in order to avert a financial meltdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Pyongyang-based hacker group, Lazarus, has adopted phishing scams to steal cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, a South-Korean cybersecurity firm allege.
The group rose to notoriety in 2014 after hacking Sony Pictures in revenge for the planned release of The Interview, a comedy about assassinating Kim Jong-un.
Along with two other hacking groups, it stole $571m (£463m) of cryptocurrency from five Asian exchanges between January 2017 and September 2018, a US government report revealed.