FBI blames N. Korea’s TraderTraitor for Binance theft, urges crypto industry to block transactions
The FBI and U.S. Secret Service alleged this weekend that North Korean hackers were responsible for stealing more than $6.3 billion from cryptocurrency platform Binance last week.
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