Microsoft published its 2026 Digital Defense Report on October 1, covering threat activity from July 2025 through June 2026, and stated that identity is "the primary control plane for defense" while w…
Chainalysis attributed the $387 million Bitget exchange hack to North Korea-linked actors in a report published Wednesday, saying the Sept. 24 breach pushed Pyongyang's 2026 crypto theft total past $1…
Anthropic reported five cases in which people used its models for work that could support biological weapons development, including help preparing a gain-of-function research proposal on a mosquito-bo…
Malicious instructions and infrastructure information written onto public blockchains have increased 440% since the emergence of high-capacity Chinese open-source AI models without restrictions on gen…
Chainalysis's 2026 Crypto Crime Report found a 420% surge in onchain malware tied to state-sponsored hackers, with North Korea-linked groups deploying malware payloads and command-and-control instruct…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States "can't pause" artificial intelligence development because "the Chinese won't pause," speaking at a Breitbart News policy discussion on Septem…
AI adoption in crypto crime rose 40% over the past year, with TRM Labs' 2026 AI-in-Crime Adoption Index placing overall use at an 'emerging' level of 54 out of 100, up from about 28 in 2024. Scams rea…
State-sponsored cyberattacks from North Korea, China and Russia rose 7.5% in the first half of 2026, driven by a surge in early-year activity, according to cybersecurity firm S2W. North Korea remained…
In 2026, the United Nations is described as humanity's last hope amid global crises including the Ukraine war, Middle East tensions, North Korea's nuclear program, Taiwan Strait and South China Sea te…
The FBI revealed on July 28 that a North Korean operative infiltrated a US federal agency by using fraudulent identity documents, part of a broader scheme involving deepfakes and AI-generated credenti…
CrowdStrike's Adam Meyers reported that North Korea is using artificial intelligence to create fake profiles and steal American jobs, according to a Yahoo Finance video published on August 3, 2026.…
The United States, Japan, and South Korea announced a joint initiative to combat North Korea's cryptocurrency crimes, including theft, money laundering, and AI-driven hacking, aiming to disrupt financ…
The US, Japan, and South Korea held their fifth trilateral working group meeting on June 25-26 to coordinate against North Korea's crypto theft operations, which accounted for 76% of global crypto hac…
A U.S. Department of Defense contractor discovered that two shortlisted remote job candidates were the same North Korean operative, flagged by Alex's Fraud Detection Agent with 34 and 92 fraudulent si…
North Korea commissioned its largest warship, the 5,000-tonne Choe Hyon destroyer, on June 23, with Kim Jong Un declaring an end to decades of naval stagnation. South Korean officials and analysts bel…
Malware authors are subverting AI detection systems with code that commands LLM-assisted products to abort analysis. SentinelLabs discovered macOS.Gaslight, a Rust backdoor targeting MacOS systems, wh…
South Korean Prime Minister nominee Han Seong-sook told lawmakers Thursday that North Korea is both a threat and a compatriot, as she faced questions on inter-Korean relations during her confirmation …
Former US Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris said security must extend beyond military cooperation to include economy, technology, and supply chains, speaking at the Jeju Forum. He described China…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung used the G7 summit to urge Washington toward diplomacy with North Korea, drawing a signal from US President Donald Trump that talks should remain the preferred app…
A North Korea-linked phishing email led to a $36 million theft from Humanity Protocol, with tokens tied to decentralized AI projects Venice and Morpheus rising after the U.S. government ordered Anthro…