Overview
- An INSS report dated Nov. 30 says North Korean researchers used OFAC‑prohibited NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2700 GPUs in recent AI studies.
- Work by the Academy of Sciences’ Mathematics Research Institute and Pyongyang Lee University focused on facial recognition, multi‑object tracking, lightweight voice synthesis, and accent identification to boost accuracy and processing speed with limited compute.
- The analysis warns these capabilities could enable deepfakes, detection evasion, scaled cryptocurrency theft, and more efficient social engineering using target identification and movement path prediction.
- The report highlights procurement routes and cooperation with China and Russia that could sustain access to high‑performance hardware despite sanctions.
- Industry tracker CertiK logged $172.5 million in crypto losses in November 2025, mostly from code flaws and wallet compromises, as INSS’s Kim Min Jung urged tighter monitoring and policy action.