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WASHINGTON North Korea's nuclear and missile tests have stopped, but its hacking operations to gather intelligence and raise funds for the sanction-strapped government in Pyongyang may be gathering steam.
U.S. security firm FireEye raised the alarm Wednesday over a North Korean group that it says has stolen hundreds of millions of dollars by infiltrating the computer systems of banks around the world since 2014 through highly sophisticated and destructive attacks that have spanned at least 11 countries. It says the group is still operating and poses "an active global threat."
It is part of a wider pattern of malicious state-backed cyber activity that has led the Trump administration to identify North Korea along with Russia, Iran and China as one of the main online threats facing the United States. Last month, the Justice Department charged a North Korean hacker said to have conspired in devastating cyberattacks, including an $81 million heist of Bangladesh's central bank and the WannaCry virus that crippled parts of Britain's National Health Service.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned of the use of malware by Hidden Cobra, the U.S. government's byword for North Korea hackers, in fraudulent ATM cash withdrawals from banks in Asia and Africa. It said that Hidden Cobra was behind the theft of tens of millions of dollars from teller machines in the past two years. In one incident this year, cash had been simultaneously withdrawn from ATMs in 23 different countries, it said.
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No wonder Trump loves Kim so much
lpbk2713
(42,767 posts)That's why he is so in love with him.
lame54
(35,326 posts)Smaller countries are perfecting their cyber armies
byronius
(7,401 posts)Given to them by Russia to cause global chaos not traceable to the Russians -- but who benefit mightily.
The man who gave the Russians the software was a self-described Liberatarian, as was the CIA traitor. The fact that right-wingers and libertarians are permitted near such dangerous national security tech is evidence of the general decline in American reasoning, and why we're so vulnerable to such betrayals in the future.
Such people believe in nothing. Like Mitch McConnell.