According to Wu, the Financial Times revealed that North Korean hackers are using generative AI to impersonate recruiters on LinkedIn and other platforms to defraud and steal virtual currency to raise funds for illegal nuclear weapons programs. Erin Plante, vice president of blockchain analysis company Chinalysis, said that generative AI supports hackers to establish close relationships with targets, including chatting, sending messages, and creating images and new identities. North Korean hackers posed as recruiters for a cryptocurrency exchange in Singapore on LinkedIn and targeted senior engineers at a cryptocurrency exchange in Japan. In addition, North Korean hackers also committed similar crimes on platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram and Discord.