The Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment against three members of Lazarus Group. Charges against one of the three were first brought in 2018. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment against three members of Lazarus Group for a wide range of financially-motivated hacks against private businesses that authorities said were designed to steal $1.3 billion in currency and cryptocurrency and further other strategic interests for the North Korean government.
The charges captures years-worth of North Korean hacking, including the widely publicized 2014 Sony hack, the 2016 hack of the Central Bank of Bangladesh, the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack and others.
In an indictment filed in the Central District of California Court, Justice officials allege that Jon Chang Hyok, Park Jin Hyok and Kim Il are members of the North Korean Reconnaissance General Bureau who conducted a series of computer intrusions using personas and spear-phishing techniques designed to imitate cryptocurrency investment schemes in order to get the victims to download malware.
The group’s activities were both “revenge and financially motivated,” sometimes destroying computer systems or deploying ransom ..
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