North Korea's intelligence agency, the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), is reportedly forming a new hacking unit named Research Center 227, aimed at developing offensive AI-based hacking technologies. According to Daily NK, this unit will focus on researching Western cybersecurity systems and enhancing the regime's capability to steal digital assets. The initiative comes amid a backdrop of North Korean hackers targeting global crypto exchanges, including a significant $1.4 billion theft from Bybit. U.S. authorities have previously linked the RGB to various hacking and espionage activities.