US, partners brief UN on growing threat of North Korean cybercrime

The U.S. and other members of a multilateral sanctions monitoring initiative briefed the U.N. on North Korea’s illicit cyber operations on Monday, three months after publishing a report on the growing threat posed by Pyongyang’s cryptocurrency theft.

The 11-nation Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) reported that DPRK cybercriminals stole at least $2.8 billion from at least 40 attacks targeting cryptocurrency companies and individual customers worldwide between Jan. 2024 and Sept. 2025, the State Department said in a press release Monday.