Korea peninsula - a venue for cyber activity

[AdamG]

In light of recent events, from October 2017


The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/w...sony.html?_r=0

This is like a Mel Brooks movie script -

When North Korean hackers tried to steal $1 billion from the New York Federal Reserve last year, only a spelling error stopped them. They were digitally looting an account of the Bangladesh Central Bank, when bankers grew suspicious about a withdrawal request that had misspelled “foundation” as “fandation.”
Even so, Kim Jong-un’s minions still got away with $81 million in that heist.

"Missed it by *that* much"

Then only sheer luck enabled a 22-year-old British hacker to defuse the biggest North Korean cyberattack to date, a ransomware attack last May that failed to generate much cash but brought down hundreds of thousands of computers across dozens of countries — and briefly crippled Britain’s National Health Service.

Money shot. Pay attention, you people in the cheap seats.

Their track record is mixed, but North Korea’s army of more than 6,000 hackers is undeniably persistent, and undeniably improving, according to American and British security officials who have traced these attacks and others back to the North.