Three North Korean computer programmers have been charged with conspiring to steal and extort more than $1 billion in a sweeping array of cyberattacks against banks, other companies and cryptocurrency traders around the world.
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The hackers were working for a North Korean military agency, the Reconnaissance General Bureau, and pursuing strategic and financial goals of the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, authorities said.
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In an indictment unsealed Wednesday, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles charged that the trio attacked banks, entertainment companies, online casinos, defense contractors, energy utilities and others in the U.S., Mexico, Indonesia, Britain, Vietnam, and other countries.
The victims included Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. One of the accused hackers, Park, was charged in the Sony attack in 2018, and now the other two men are accused of having a hand in the incursion as well.
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The indictment announced alleges a broader scheme to carry out various cybercrimes, including the attempted theft of $1.2 billion from banks across the globe, wide distribution of malicious cryptocurrency apps and spear-phishing campaigns. latimes.com/california/sto…
North Korea has emerged in the last decade as among the most sophisticated and threatening hacking forces in the world, according to cybersecurity experts and the U.S. government.
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