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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.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:55PM
It's communist in the worst sense: the hereditary dictator's organization is the only owner of most things, therefore the people are sort of "all in it together" like in Communism, but otherwise screwed.
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