TBD | North Korea's Hacking Army
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🗓️ 22 May 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 1:07.7 | I wonder if I can get you to play Translator for me with the Treasury Department. Sure. I'll |
| 1:14.9 | try my best. That's Jason Bartlett. He's an expert in international sanctions policy. Among other |
| 1:20.8 | things, he studies North Korea. So he was the perfect person to help understand this statement |
| 1:26.5 | from the Treasury Department from early May. It says, they sanctioned virtual currency mixer blender.io |
| 1:34.4 | blender, which is used by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, aka North Korea, |
| 1:39.6 | to support its malicious cyber activities and money laundering of stolen virtual currency. |
| 1:44.8 | I wonder, as an expert on all of this, if you could put that into plain English for me, what does that |
| 1:51.4 | mean? It was a very significant measure by Treasury because it was the first ever designation of |
| 1:57.7 | a cryptocurrency mixer. And why that matters is that for the past year and a half, the Biden |
| 2:04.4 | administration has really tried to wrap its head around cryptocurrency and how it is potentially |
| 2:11.6 | used to finance bad activity. And if you use crypto to finance shady things like terrorism or |
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