North Korea<\/a> of being behind the \u201cWannaCry\u201d ransomware attack that infected more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries in May.<\/p>\nBut it\u2019s not just large-scale operations: as well as pilfering funds from online gambling sites, North Korea engages in hacking ATMs to steal banking information, as well as stealing, and mining, bitcoin and other digital currencies.<\/p>\n
North Korea does not just hack online gambling sites, it has also been reported to operate them, mainly targeting South Koreans.<\/p>\n
Last year, Cho Hyun-chun, the chief of South Korea’s Defense Security Command, said its northern neighbor\u2019s online gambling operations and other illegal online businesses generated roughly $866 million per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North Korea\u2019s notorious state-backed cyber-criminals are more interested in stealing cash than classified state secrets these days, and they will even hack into online gambling and poker websites to achieve their nefarious ends. That\u2019s the verdict from South Korea\u2019s Financial Security Institute (FSI), which analyzed cyber-attacks between 2015 and 2017 and found that, far from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":55566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21,10,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
North Korean Hackers More Interested in Cash (and Gambling Sites) Than State Secrets<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n