North Korea has denied claims that it was behind the record $6.3bn (£4.7bn) hack of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, calling the allegations “absurd rhetoric”.
Kim Yo-jong, a prime Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea official and the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, mentioned on Tuesday that the accusations are one other “sinister try” by the US to break Pyongyang’s public picture.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Secret Service and cyber analysts have mentioned North Korea orchestrated the hack, which has been described as the biggest in historical past.
That is the newest hack to be linked to North Korea, which has been accused of counting on cyber-crime to assist finance its sanctioned financial system.
Blockchain analysts and the FBI have mentioned the assault was led by state-backed hacking group TraderTraitor.
The FBI has referred to as on trade companions to assist block transactions involving cryptocurrency accounts linked to the group.
“The US has made a trite provocation of linking it with the Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea once more,” Kim Yo-jong, the director of North Korea’s Common Affairs Division, mentioned in a press release.
“It’s a grave political provocation in opposition to the DPRK that the US misleads the worldwide public opinion as if all of the cyber crimes in numerous components of the world are our deeds,” she mentioned.
