North Korea's Fake Job Interviews Drained $11M From 7,000 Crypto Wallets
- —About $10.71 million (¥1.7 billion) stolen from more than 7,000 crypto wallets
- —At least 30,000 devices infected across more than 100 countries
- —Campaign ran from roughly December 2025 to July 2026
- —Japan dismantled a domestic laptop farm run by a local enabler, a first for the country
Why it matters: Fake-recruiter schemes remain a top crypto theft vector: CertiK tied 60% of 2025's $2.06 billion in losses to North Korea-linked groups.
Source: Decrypt