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Microsoft: North Korean Hackers Target SMBs With H0lyGh0st Ransomware

Home › Virus & Threats Microsoft: North Korean Hackers Target SMBs With H0lyGh0st Ransomware By Ionut Arghire on July 15, 2022 Tweet Microsoft this week sounded the alarm on a North Korean threat actor using the H0lyGh0st ransomware in attacks targeting small and midsize businesses worldwide. The hackers, who call themselves H0lyGh0st and are tracked by Microsoft as DEV-0530, have been using…

Bureau 121, ( associated names Dark Seoul, Guardians of Peace) according to defectors, is one of six divisions of North Korea’s General Bureau of Reconnaissance that is charged with cyber-intelligence operations. The bureau was created in 1998 and it consists of ~1800 handpicked hackers who are allegedly the “most talented and rewarded personnel within the North Korean military” according to a Reuters interview with a defector known as Jang Se-yul. Students are recruited directly from the University of Automation and paid relatively significant sums.North Korea uses cyber-warfare as a cost effective intelligence branch of their military. Many in North Korea see cyber-warfare as their strongest weapon. Bureau 121 most frequently targets South Korea, Japan, and the United States. Bureau 121 targets financial institutions and media companies. In one March 2014 attack, 30,000 South Korean servers associated with banking and media broadcasting outlets were damaged

Bureau 121, ( associated names Dark Seoul, Guardians of Peace) according to defectors, is one of six divisions of North Korea’s General Bureau of Reconnaissance that is charged with cyber-intelligence operations. The bureau was created in 1998 and it consists of ~1800 handpicked hackers who are allegedly the “most talented and rewarded personnel within the North Korean military” according to a Reuters interview with a defector known as Jang Se-yul. Students are recruited directly from the University of Automation and paid relatively significant sums.North Korea uses cyber-warfare as a cost effective intelligence branch of their military. Many in North Korea see cyber-warfare as their strongest weapon. Bureau 121 most frequently targets South Korea, Japan, and the United States.

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In het digitale domein zijn verschillende landen inmiddels in een cyberoorlog verwikkeld. De dreiging wordt steeds mondialer, met als gevolg dat vele landen inmiddels begonnen zijn met de opbouw van een heus cyberleger, ondanks dat defensiebudgetten verder afnemen en men zelfs begonnen is aan de ontmanteling van haar fysieke strijdmachten. Natuurlijk hebben al deze cybereenheden een defensief…

North Korea’s ‘ruthless magic weapon': The cyber warrior factory ‘behind Sony hack’ which handpicks genius children to target enemies of Kim Jong un

Just like in a Bond movie, an army of teenage geniuses tap away at keyboards in fortified complex tucked away from prying eyes in a rogue state, bent on bringing cyber-carnage to their Western enemies on the orders of their leader who is bent on revenge.

But this isn’t the plot line from a film. This is North Korea in 2014. And the cyber-warriors inside have diverted from their usual work of…

US probe links N. Korea to Sony hacking

By ERIC TUCKER and TED BRIDIS

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal investigators have now connected the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. to North Korea, a U.S. official said Wednesday, though it remained unclear how the federal government would respond to a break-in that exposed sensitive documents and ultimately led to terrorist threats against moviegoers.

The official, who said a more formal…

October 6, 2013: The international hacker community is becoming less mysterious. Over the last decade Internet security firms (especially Kaspersky Labs and Symantec) have been increasingly successful at identifying the hacker organizations responsible…