Three North Korean Military Hackers Indicted in Wide-Ranging Scheme to Commit Cyberattacks and Financial Crimes Across the Globe
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday announced the indictment of three North Korean military intelligence officials linked to high-profile cyber-attacks that included the theft of $1.3 billion in money and crypto-currency from organizations around the world.
The indictment alleges the trio was part of a “wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks” against companies and crypto-currency exchanges around the world.
The DOJ described the scope of the North Korean hacking operation as “extensive and long-running”.
“The range of crimes they committed is staggering,'' said Acting U.S. Attorney Tracy Wilkison. “The conduct detailed in the indictment are the acts of a criminal nation-state that has stopped at nothing to extract revenge and obtain money to prop up its regime.”
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The new indictment expands on a 2018 case against the Pyongyang hacking group blamed for attacks against Sony Pictures,, the destructive Wannacry worm, a series of brazen online bank robberies against the global financial system, and ongoing ransomware extortion schemes.
The group, known publicly as Lazarus, has also been actively draining billions of dollars from hacks against crypto-currency exchanges.
The newest indictment adds two new North Korean defendants to the government’s case and named a third Canadian-American citizen who was part of the Lazarus group’s money laundering operations.
From the Justice Department announcement:
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