The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury has taken a strong stance against cyber-enabled financial schemes that support North Korea’s illicit weapons programs by imposing sanctions on Song Kum Hyok, a malevolent cyber actor connected to the hacking group Andariel of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). […]
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The U.S. Treasury’s July 8 action against Song Kum Hyok and four Russia-based entities pulled back the curtain on a sophisticated malware-enabled revenue pipeline that has quietly bankrolled Pyongyang’s weapons programs for years. Investigators trace the campaign to Andariel, a Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) sub-unit already notorious for high-value cryptocurrency heists. By embedding North Korean […]
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