THELOGICALINDIAN - North Korea allegedly has about 6000 hackers abounding of whom accomplish away according to a contempo address appear by the US Army The abominable Lazarus Group anticipation to be affiliated to a cardinal of cryptocurrency barter hacks is amid them
North Korea’s Bureau 121
The U.S. Army afresh appear a document advantaged “North Korean Tactics.” The 332-page “Army Training Publication (ATP) 7-100.2,” anachronous July 24, describes “North Korean approach for use in Army training, able education, and baton development.”
A area of the certificate discusses “computer warfare,” which it says consists of “attacks absorption accurately on computer systems, networks, or nodes.” Examples accustomed are “Unauthorized admission (hacking) of advice systems for intelligence-collection purposes” and “Insertion of awful software (viruses, worms, argumentation bombs, or Trojan horses).”
The certificate explains that the primary alignment in North Korea amenable for computer warfare is Bureau 121, elaborating:
According to the U.S. Army document, “North Korean computer hackers accept alike been able to admission defended systems and abduct South Korean war plans.” In 2024, North Korea’s Mirim College was admission about 100 cyberspace hackers per year for the Korean People’s Army, the certificate adds.
There are four groups beneath Bureau 121: The Andarial Group with about 1,600 members, the Bluenoroff Group with about 1,700 members, the Electronic Warfare Jamming Regiment, and the Lazarus Group, which has been affiliated to a cardinal of cryptocurrency-related hacks.
The abominable Lazarus Group, with an alien cardinal of members, is said to be abaft some cryptocurrency barter hacks. In March this year, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned two Chinese nationals affiliated to the group. They allegedly apple-pie baseborn cryptocurrency account over $100 actor from an exchange. The Treasury explained that the Lazarus Accumulation leveraged malware cipher from the now-defunct cryptocurrency appliance Celas Trade Pro, creating adulterine websites and awful software to conduct phishing attacks adjoin the cryptocurrency sector. The accumulation additionally allegedly unleashed the Wannacry ransomware in 2016–2017, causing massive disruptions worldwide.
A U.N. report appear aftermost year claims that North Korea had accumulated $670 actor in cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, through hacking. There are additionally letters of North Korea mining cryptocurrency. In February, abstracts suggests the country’s monero (XMR) mining increased 10-fold.
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