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In 2016 North Korean hackers planned a $1 billion raid on Bangladesh’s national bank and came within an inch of success – it was only by a fluke that all but $81 million of the transfers were halted, report Geoff White and Jean H Lee. But how did one of the world’s poorest and most isolated countries train a team of elite cyber-criminals?

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