The Global Story: How North Korean hackers launched history's biggest heist

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  Hello, this is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Valerie Sanderson with your weekly bonus from the Global Story,

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  Here's my colleague, Lucy Hawkings.

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  It is likely the biggest heist in history.

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  When the cryptocurrency trading platform Bybit was targeted last month,

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  hackers managed to steal almost $1.5 billion in just two minutes.

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  And as a race against time began to stop the culprits cashing out,

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  it didn't take long for fingers to point in one direction.

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  North Korea,

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  the secretive country has long faced allegations of state sponsored hacking

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  via the elite Lazarus Group to prop up its ailing economy.

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  But analysts suggest its malicious activity is on the rise.

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  So after this latest mega theft, how are intelligence agencies fighting back?

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