🇰🇵 North Korean hackers have laundered $3 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from exchanges, services, and investors over the past 7 years. What scammers use:

1️⃣ Splitting — instant transfers of stolen funds through hundreds and thousands of "garbage" wallets. The goal is to create an avalanche of transactions and confuse automated and manual trails.

2️⃣ Mixers — mass processing through mixing services to break obvious on-chain connections; even under sanctions, such tools remain effective for hiding the source.

3️⃣ DEX → stablecoins — quick swaps on DEX exchanges and conversion to USDT/USDC to "change the form" of the asset and complicate tracking between networks.

4️⃣ Gambling and anonymous services — final processing through online casinos and similar platforms, where large sums are easier to "play through" and withdraw via controlled intermediaries.

5️⃣ Social engineering and legends — alongside the laundering technique, a carefully crafted operational legend operates: fake resumes, deepfakes in interviews, working through VPNs and Russian IPs, hiring "workers" in shifts; this provides access to companies and stable withdrawal channels.