SoylentNews
SoylentNews is people
https://soylentnews.org/

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

'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.

Original Submission

1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
2. "'Desperate' North Korea turns to bank hacking sprees to rake in much-needed dosh" - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/03/north_korea_tcash/
3. "Lazarus" - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/04/lazarus_hacker_hunt_trail/
4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=29393

printed from SoylentNews, 'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh on 2026-04-20 13:02:09