back to article Feds offer $5m reward for info on North Korean cyber crooks

The US government offered a reward up to $5 million for information that helps disrupt North Korea's cryptocurrency theft, cyber-espionage, and other illicit state-backed activities. The cash will be awarded "for information that leads to the disruption of financial mechanisms of persons engaged in certain activities that …

  1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    Paleface speak with forked tongue, KemoSabe*

    The US government offered a reward up to $5 million for information that helps disrupt North Korea's cryptocurrency theft, cyber-espionage, and other illicit state-backed activities.

    :-) That's rich and an hypocrisy of the highest order if/when the US government condones and supports the seizing of Russian assets, formerly helping to encourage in the far East and prop up and sustain capitalism in the West, by NATO allies ..... although there will be those who just love to flog a dead horse who will cry that is not the same whenever it is so very clearly not at all dissimilar.

    Sadly then does it all smack of a pathetic desperation signalling a position of systemic weakness easily exposed to overwhelming conditions for which there is no available defence against both either random renegade rogue or sustained corporate smarter frenemy attack ..... a disaster in itself which presents the chance of a radical and fundamental change being adopted to take full leading advantage of new novel opportunities never countenanced let alone trailed and trialed before.

    Quite whether such chances are enthusiastically seized and reinforced with generous application and duly diligent mutually beneficial mentoring and monitoring will define the future nature of existence for humanity with one available stream to extreme being heavenly whilst the other available, accompanied by failures to engage and change one's ways on every step of the way, being hellish and deservedly so many would say.

    * A Lone Ranger and Tonto blast from the past.:-)

    1. Version 1.0 Silver badge

      Re: Paleface speak with forked tongue, KemoSabe*

      $5,000,000 - $100,000 = $4,900,00 for Virgil Griffith if he helps them and it sounds like he probably knows a lot more about the criminals, their activities, and their hacking coding.

  2. sanmigueelbeer Silver badge

    I really do not know why Kim would not want to mine crypto themselves.

    1. fxkeh

      It needs plentiful cheap power (electicity supply is not particuarly stable in North Korean, so I doubt they have lots of spare capacity) and warehouses full of computer hardware that they can't buy due to sanctions?

  3. chivo243 Silver badge
    Trollface

    I know

    They are North Korean, and they are criminals... possibly using a computer! can I have my $5 mil now?

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Let the Norks have all the coin

    You can’t eat crypto-ponzi

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    EASY

    Give me the 5 mil, I will use 4 mil to buy NK, and 1mil to wipe my ass. I will give NK to the US, and give biden the 1mil I kept, as I finish with the bills.

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