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'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh

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

upstart writes:

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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 Monday October 08 2018, @12:44AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 08 2018, @12:44AM (#745742)

    If you are such a rich guy--don't you claim to be a billionaire?--why don't you loan Rocketman a billion and save his computer crackers all the trouble. I'm sure you can make a good deal on the interest, which after all has all the slaves citizens in N. Korea for collateral.

  • (Score: -1) by fakefuck39 on Monday October 08 2018, @10:47PM

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Monday October 08 2018, @10:47PM (#746184)

    I'm thinking this currently 3-post thread is the same guy from the top down. There's certain type of personality that gets stuck on a joke, and can repeat it for extremely extended periods of time. Ever watch some niggers arguing and they repeat the same thing over and over and over and over and over? Same type of brain disease as here, and I'm guessing it comes with a dash of "reply to myself."