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posted by mrpg on Sunday October 07 2018, @10:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the sorry-me-please-banks dept.

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'Desperate' North Korea turns to bank hacking sprees to rake in much-needed dosh

Hackers backed by the North Korea government are attempting to ransack foreign banks to raise funds for the cash-strapped hermit nation.

Researchers at FireEye say that a gang dubbed APT38* are trying to pull off a billion-dollar money grab, and are working separate from the infamous Nork-sponsored Lazarus group.

According to FireEye, the APT38 group is apparently operating as a subset of a larger North Korean hacking operation known as TEMP.Hermit. The bank-focused group is thought to be behind North Korean cyber-attacks on the 2016 Bank of Bangladesh heist and the 2018 Banco de Chile attack, and others, incidents that had previously only been believed to have been TEMP.Hermit operations.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @12:36PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @12:36PM (#745464)

    What is dosh?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @12:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @12:45PM (#745466)

    What is dosh?

    According to the dictionary:

    Dosh (n)
    British, informal. : money

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:03PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:03PM (#745469)

    Context? Dinero, bread, cash, coin, clink, dead presidents, bucks, cabbage, change, green, moola, scratch, tender, wampum, scrip, clams, dough, lucre, moola, simoleons, scratch, loot, and probably a helluva lot more.