Casinos and cryptocurrency exchanges in the Mekong region are emerging as key venues for organised crime, the UN Office of Drugs and Crime said in a report.
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North Korean hackers are sharing money-laundering and underground banking networks with fraudsters and drug traffickers in Southeast Asia, according to a United Nations report published yesterday, with casinos and crypto exchanges emerging as key venues for organised crime
Money laundering and illicit banking networks were reported by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime to have been shared by North Korean state-sponsored threat operations, including the Lazarus Group, with criminals in various countries across Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand, according to Reuters.