Void Dokkaebi Campaigns Using Russia for Cryptocurrency Theft
April 24, 2025 By Prajeet Nair
North Korean hackers look north toward Russia for the internet infrastructure behind the many online scams that Pyongyang has built to funnel stolen cash into the rouge nation.
Trend Micro in a Wednesday report traced cybercrime activities aligned with North Korea to IP addresses assigned to an organization in the Russian city of Khabarovsk, which has cultivated ties with North Korea since the demise of the Soviet Union. It also traced activity to Khasan, a hamlet just across the Russian border from the Hermit Kingdom that's the site of the "Korea–Russia Friendship Bridge." A major Russian telecommunications firm laid a fiber-optic cable across the bridge in 2017.