North Korean Hackers Are Alive And Well
Remember when they did the Sony hack? Well they’re still at it.
by Ben Makuch Mar 5 2020
In late 2014, North Korean hackers made their blockbuster debut in popular culture after the infamous Sony hack. It was one of those watershed cybersecurity moments when a hacking story finally dominated news headlines with a made for Hollywood plot: A Seth Rogen stoner comedy catching the ire of the Hermit Kingdom so much so that Kim Jong Un deployed his team of skillful hackers to embarrass the movie company that made the film.
Even when the NSA confirmed North Korea was the culprit, people still openly wondered how a country virtually shut off from world markets by a series of international sanctions and with less than 1 percent of its population actually on the internet, could afford or train elite hackers?
Read more at: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epgq4a/north-korean-hackers-are-alive-and-well
Vice, Raw Story, I forget which, they are pretty leftwing but this article seemed informative enough.
