North Korea's decade-old hacker program recruits child prodigies for crypto heists

North Korea has institutionalized a state-sponsored hacking program that selects 200 top middle school students annually for elite computer engineering training, incentivizing them with apartments and hard currency. The program, over a decade old, has produced hackers responsible for major crypto thefts like the Binance hack netting $6.3 billion. This confirms a long-term state strategy to use cybercrime as a revenue source, with implications for global financial security.

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