North Korea Hackers Stole $11M From 7,000 Crypto Wallets via Fake Job Interviews

The joint advisory matters less for the $11 million than for the attribution: it formally links a criminal hacking crew and Pyongyang's remote IT worker scheme to a single state bureau, folding two previously separate threat streams into one. That reframes fake job interviews as a state-directed intrusion channel rather than isolated social engineering, implicating crypto firms' hiring pipelines as an attack surface. Whether other governments issue matching attribution, and whether exchanges tighten recruitment vetting, is the open question.