2020-03-01
The folks at @WIRED have excerpted The Hacker and the State's take on North Korean bank hacking. It includes the brazen billion-dollar attempt against the Bank of Bangladesh, but also more than that, and there's even more in the book. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
An excerpt from the book “The Hacker and the State”, which includes details about North Korea's hacking campaigns against banks across the world
Ben Buchanan / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @nicolas_veron , @harvard_press , and @buchananben Tweets: @wired : North Korean hackers have broken into financial institutions all over t...
2020-02-29
The folks at @WIRED have excerpted The Hacker and the State's take on North Korean bank hacking. It includes the brazen billion-dollar attempt against the Bank of Bangladesh, but also more than that, and there's even more in the book. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
An excerpt from the book “The Hacker and the State”, which includes details about North Korea's hacking campaigns against banks across the world
They scored $80 million by tricking a network into routing funds to Sri Lanka and the Philippines and then using a “money mule” to pick up the cash. Tweets: @harvard_press , @nicol...
2020-02-10
Great article by @SangerNYT on North Korea's expanding use of the Internet, with research from @RecordedFuture and quotes from me and my new book, The Hacker and the State, which shows how North Korean hacking evolved to what it is today. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Research: North Korea's internet use has surged ~300% since 2017 despite US sanctions, with ~50% of its traffic flowing through a new connection in Russia
The North has evaded America's “maximum pressure” campaign with a 300 percent increase in internet use that has opened up new opportunities for cybercrime.