North Korea leads global crypto hacks with $2b in 2025

North Korea–linked hacking groups has stolen more cryptocurrency than anyone else in 2025, siphoning off more than $2 billion as their operations became fewer but more targeted and higher impact, according to new research. North Korean hackers stole about $2.02 billion worth of digital assets from January through early December, up 51 percent from a year earlier, global blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said in a report released this week. The findings, part of Chainalysis’s annual overview