Not spoken about here is the fact that Lazarus __did__ make off with well over a billion dollars in funds by hacking numerous cryptocurrency exchanges around Asia and got away with it, too.
Oh, and this is just KuCoin they're talking about here. They stole well over $3 billion more from several other exchanges in 2017-2018. All the exchange hacks back then on the various Asian exchanges are attributed to them. Really likely they made off with upward of $5 billion in today's terms of all sorts of altcoins.
>In the ensuing years, tech security firms have attributed many more cryptocurrency attacks to North Korea. They claim the country's hackers have targeted exchanges where cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are swapped for traditional currencies. Added together, some estimates put the thefts from these exchanges at more than $2bn.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/09/north...
Oh, and this is just KuCoin they're talking about here. They stole well over $3 billion more from several other exchanges in 2017-2018. All the exchange hacks back then on the various Asian exchanges are attributed to them. Really likely they made off with upward of $5 billion in today's terms of all sorts of altcoins.
https://www.coindesk.com/north-korean-hacking-group-lazarus-...