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Criminals commonly use cryptocurrency to carry out illicit activities such as money laundering, funding terrorism activities, buying and selling narcotics and many others. According to the new report by the UN, hackers have been attacking exchanges to steal the cryptocurrency and then use it to fund nuclear weapons development. North Korea is leading the game.

The Political Affairs Committee of South Korea’s National Assembly has informed the Financial Services Commission (FSC) on numerous attempts of hackers to break into the country’s financial institutions. Cryptocurrency exchanges became the main target.

Lazarus, a famous hacking group originating from North Korea, might be trying to steal Bitcoin and other digital currencies through Telegram. Previously, the hackers from this illustrious group have managed to crackdown a good number of cryptocurrency exchanges and run away with a huge amount of money, and other victim exchanges have declared their bankruptcy.

Recent UN reports shows that North Korea (DPRK) has managed to amass around $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) activities via cyberattacks that illegally accessed people’s bank accounts and digital currency exchanges.

One of the most important features of cryptocurrency is its ability to offer a user full anonymity and privacy. Is it good? A challenging question. For most people tend to believe that anonymity is something important only for fraudsters and criminals. And this is partially true. However, ordinary people also need privacy to protect their everyday life.

When Bitcoin started to be used as an alternative means of payment, it was looking like garbage in the eyes of the oblivious public. The flagship cryptocurrency was adjacent to a mediocrity especially in the first six months between 2009 and 2010, with a value above 13 cents. It was during the summer of 2010 when most people started to hear and get to know the importance of it. Most online and offline news platforms picked interest in it and started writing and researching about it.

The world’s third largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ripple (XRP), is on the move after an unsuspected attack by anonymous hackers. Early this month, around $9.2 million worth of Ripple (23 mln of XRP) was illegally fetched from GateHub, a digital currency wallet service provider. It looks like the hackers are now in the process of moving the stolen Ripple and cashing out at any available opportunity.

The United States (US) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yet again ruined the hopes of the public involved in the cryptocurrency industry, by rearranging a verdict on the launch of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) to make a more dependable platform for significant institutional money to enter the digital currency markets. The US SEC’s delay of a crypto ETF is not such a bad thing since institution of such legal actions is suitable at this moment taking into consideration the legal and policy matters originating from the suggested rule amendment.

Whale Alert, a twitter account that automatically and manually records weighty cryptocurrency transfers for the social media platform ecosystem, uncovered that just over $250 thousand of stolen Ethereum (ETH) from the hacked New Zealand (NZ)-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia, finally moved on Tuesday May 21.