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North Korea Linked To Global Hacking Operation Against Critical Infrastructure, Telecoms (thehill.com)

Posted by msmash on from the closer-view dept.

A suspected North Korean hacking campaign has expanded to targets in 17 different countries, including the U.S., pilfering information on critical infrastructure, telecommunications and entertainment organizations, researchers say. From a report: Cybersecurity firm McAfee released new research on the hacking campaign this week, calling it Operation GhostSecret and describing the attackers as having "significant capabilities" to develop and use multiple cyber tools and rapidly expand operations across the globe. The findings demonstrate the growing sophistication of North Korea's army of hackers, which has been blamed for high-profile hacking operations such as the WannaCry malware outbreak last year.

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  1. It isn't NK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is mostly China which is using NK as a proxy. NK earns foreign currency and China can get intelligence information without getting caught.

    1. Re:It isn't NK by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nah, I'm pretty sure it's Russians paying China to be a proxy, who's paying North Korea to be a proxy.

      You know what they say. The proxy of my enemy is my proxy.

      It's proxies all the way down.

      Etc.

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  2. Going 'way out on a limb, here... by hyades1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark, and guess one of the 17 countries whose infrastructure North Korea is accused of trying to hack is NOT China.

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    1. Re:Going 'way out on a limb, here... by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 2

      I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark, and guess one of the 17 countries whose infrastructure North Korea is accused of trying to hack is NOT China.

      Don't be so sure. Kim is not China's lackey. He had his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, gruesomely executed. Jang was widely seen as "China's guy" within Kim's government, and the execution was perceived as a message to China that he was not going to be a pushover.

      His father and grandfather also occasionally purged their governments of people considered too "pro-China" (and too pro-Russia).

  3. Re:No way by butchersong · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They may end up pissing China off enough to finally do something about them with all this nuclear testing. See this story today. Apparently they collapsed the mountain they've been using to test their nuclear weapons and created a volcano that may spew radiation to nearby countries. http://www.scmp.com/news/china...

  4. Poor NK regime by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They've been saddled with the responsibility of being part of the world's "axis of evil" and have limited real capabilities. I guess hacking is the best they can do to keep up their role as potential threat to world peace and stability in order to keep American tax dollars flowing into the military industrial complex.