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  • Ethereum Foundation Helps Expose North Korean Workers That Infiltrated Crypto Firms

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    North Korea’s hacking spree has kept the crypto industry on high alert for years, but the Ethereum Foundation has indicated that the tide could turn in a matter of months. Establishing a program with blockchain security groups helped expose around 100 IT workers associated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Swiss nonprofit said in a blog post published on Thursday, noting that the discoveries took place over half a year. The Ethereum Foundation outlined how the ETH Rangers Program also led to the detection of hundreds of vulnerabilities and prompted dozens of incident responses, but the tally of ... (full story)

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