Odaily Planet Daily News Security researchers gave the latest assessment of the threat from North Korea at the Cyberwarcon conference. Researchers said that North Korean hackers continue to disguise themselves as potential employees seeking to work at multinational companies in order to earn money for North Korea and steal corporate secrets that will help its weapons programs. Over the past decade, these imposters have amassed billions of dollars by stealing cryptocurrencies, funded the country's nuclear weapons program, and successfully circumvented a series of international sanctions. Microsoft security researcher James Elliott said at the Cyberwarcon conference that North Korean IT workers have infiltrated "hundreds" of organizations around the world by creating false identities, while relying on U.S. facilitators to handle company-issued workstations and income to circumvent financial sanctions against North Koreans. (TechCrunch)