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North Korea drives onchain malware surge, CoinEx shuts: Asia Express
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North Korea and Iran account for most onchain malware, while Malaysia has been named among the most crypto curious Islamic nations.
Key facts
- Thailand’s SEC has proposed new stablecoin regulations that would prohibit users from transferring more than 5 million baht per day, worth around $151,000
- Six Malaysian men were sentenced in Singapore to hefty sentences up to 12 years and 11 months —plus 24 strokes of the cane, over a 2024 armed robbery involving crypto, cash, and luxury items
- Metaplanet will reduce the number of potential shares underlying the rights from 319.464 million to 188.19 million, and reset the conversion ratio to the level it was before its September 2025
- The change will extinguish more than $220 million in warrant value and increase the company’s Bitcoin per fully diluted share by about 8.8%, according to Metaplanet
Summary
North Korean and Iran linked hackers were responsible for most the 420% increase this year in malware on public blockchains according to a Chainalysis report. State-linked hackers accounted for roughly two-thirds of new activity whereby attackers stored malware instructions or infrastructure information on public blockchains. Chainalysis also identified UNC5342, a North Korea linked group, to previously unattributed activity spanning Tron, Aptos and BNB Smart Chain. Chainalysis said using public blockchains increases the durability of malware campaigns because the stored information remains accessible after domains, servers or code repositories are taken down.