![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Security firm FireEye has identified APT38, a North Korean hacking collective backed by the state that is believed to be responsible for operations across over 16 organizations in at least 11 countries. Security experts have reported hacking groups backed by North Korea’s authoritarian government are continually targeting financial institutions, cryptocurrency-related organizations, and other organizations of interest in an attempt to generate revenue and gather intelligence for the isolated, sanction-strapped country. In September, the US Justice Department charged alleged North Korean operative Park Jin-hyok over the Sony hack, the WannaCry ransomware attack and the $81 million heist of Bangladesh’s central bank among other devastating attacks. Numerous attacks in South Korea, including the recent hacking of South Korean bitcoin exchange Youbit in December 2017 have been linked to North Korea as well. The widespread WannaCry ransomware attacks that infected hundreds of thousands of computers in 150 nations and crippled parts of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) in May 2017 has also been linked to North Korean hackers. The Sony attack was believed to be in retaliation to the company’s planned Christmas Day release of the “The Interview”, a comedy that surrounds the assassination North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. North Korea was accused of carrying out the devastating hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014. North Korean hackers, backed by Pyongyang, have been tied to a wide range of cyber attacks and cyber espionage operations over the years that have caused huge disruptions, stolen millions of dollars, or siphoned off valuable intelligence. North Korean-linked hacking group APT38 has stolen hundreds of millions of dollars in bank heists spanning across at least 11 countries, security researchers at FireEye reported. ![]()
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