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How North Korea grooms the hackers blamed for the Binance heist

After the roughly $6.3B Binance hack, which TRM Labs and Chainalysis attribute to North Korea's TraderTraitor unit, the Financial Times looks at how Pyongyang builds its hacking teams. Simon Choi, chief technology officer at cyber security start-up StealthMole, told the FT: 'North Korean students who excel in mathematics and science are selected and trained in hacking from their teenage years.'

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