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The WannaCry ransomware has since been linked to North Korea, according to a report in The Guardian which said top security firms Kapersky and Symantec had discovered similarities to code used in a 2015 backdoor created by the government - linked North Korean hackers.

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The company tracked North Korean hackers and noted their activity.

North Korean hackers pretended to be government authorities and servicemen.

According to him, the cryptocurrency market remains the likely target of North Korean hackers because of its size and weak regulation.

They observed that North Korean hackers targeted three different exchanges in South Korea.

The National Intelligence Agency of South Korea claims that North Korean hackers could be the ones who attacked the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck and stole $ 523 million in NEM coins.

Bitcoinist recently reported that North Korean hackers might have been behind a wave of Spearphishing attacks that were targeting South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Throughout the upcoming weeks, the South Korean law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies are expected to focus on finding solid evidence to link the hacking attack targeted at Youbit to North Korean hackers.

Intelligence officials in South Korea reportedly believe that North Korean hackers may be responsible for the massive theft of cryptocurrency taken from the cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck earlier this year, according to Reuters.

Specifically, the FireEye team wrote that the following activities were likely initiated by North Korean hackers:

Earlier this year, it was reported that North Korean hackers launched a number of campaigns that aimed to hijack computers and use them to mine for cryptocurrencies.

It should come as no surprise that North Korean hackers are looking to get their grubby mitts on some Bitcoin.

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South Korean officials believe that North Korean hackers stole tens of millions of dollars» worth in cryptocurrencies last year, according to local reports.

This security breach, along with several other breaches of South Korean exchanges, has recently been more definitively linked to North Korean hackers.»

The Alma Mater is considered to be the breeding ground for North Korean hackers.

North Korean hackers may have been responsible for the largest cryptocurrency heist to date, Reuters reports.

However, according to an official from the South Korean Cyber Warfare Intelligence Center (CWIC), North Korean hackers have also been widely using phishing emails.

South Korea is, by far, the most common target of North Korean hackers.

North Korean hackers are gaining a lot of notoriety this week after the US government formally blamed them for carrying out the massive WannaCry ransomware attack that began in May.

South Korean intelligence even suspects that North Korean hackers were behind the big heist from Japan's Coincheck in January.»

In the past — including a phishing campaign in early 2017 — North Korean hackers targeted the same program using Hangul exploits and malicious.

The cybersecurity firm FireEye reported North Korean hackers were behind several cyberattacks against bitcoin exchanges and cryptocurrency wallets over the past few months.

Also, the cybersecurity company, FireEye confirmed earlier this year that state - backed North Korean hackers were responsible for hacking several South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges and stealing Bitcoin.

The privacy advice and security website, Comparitech, showed that there is a phishing scam that is now targeting bitcoin and scamming it from bitcoin users who are new to the cryptocurrency.On top of this and if all of this wasn't enough, South Korea's bitcoin exchange was successfully targeted and hit by what some think were North Korean hackers.

Given how easy it is to use Bitcoin globally, there is no wonder that the North Korean hackers are actively targeting it.

We have previously covered the attempts by North Korean hackers to infiltrate South Korean exchanges through security vulnerabilities.

There have been a number of reports of North Korean hackers trying to breach cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea and abroad.

South Korea's spy agency said North Korean hackers were behind attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges this year in which some 7.6 billion won ($ 6.99 million) worth of cryptocurrencies were stolen, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

The routine of North Korean hackers trying to target Bitcoin exchanges is likely to only increase.

North Korean hackers are also purported to be behind the highly effective «Lazarus Group».

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It also accused North Korean hackers of being behind the breach of another cryptocurrency exchange, Coinis, in September.

«CyberBerkut, companies like Hacking Team that are selling hacking - for - hire services, and reports that North Korean hackers are launching their operations from a Thai hotel are all examples of proxy hackers working under indirect influence,» he said.

North Korean hackers have till date targeted four South Korean virtual currency exchanges by sending phishing emails.

Rather than being remembered as a fairly light - hearted comedy about an intercontinental hit job, the film is primarily associated with the infamous Sony hack that went down just prior to its release, which was seen as a retaliatory act by North Korean hackers and led to the film being pulled from most theaters.

It was set to debut in theaters but after North Korean hackers called the film an act of war and made threats, many cinema chains chose not to screen the movie.

In the face of taking some hefty cyber bullying, Sony cancelled the premier of the Seth Rogen and James Franco film following an epic doxing by what appear to be North Korean hackers supported by despot Kim Jong Un — whom «The Interview» roundly mocks and assassinates in more than just character.

North Korean hackers operate from facilities in China and other foreign countries where their government sends or permits them to work.

Cybersecurity firm FireEye warned recently that North Korean hackers are stepping up their attempts to steal bitcoin in order to support Kim Jong Un's authoritarian regime.

In December 2014, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power's internal documents — such as its building blueprints and documents from the Blue House, Ministry of Defense, and National Intelligence Service — were leaked to the public by North Korean hackers, as determined by the Government Combined Investigation Unit on Personal Information Crime based on the analysis of malware and the IP addresses involved in the breach.

In December, Sony Pictures Entertainment was hacked by who was thought to be North Korean hackers; however, one security firm claims they've traced the hacking to Russia instead.

It seems that North Korean hackers have moved on from movies... to cryptocurrency.

The most famous example is last year's WannaCry cyberattack, in which North Korean hackers used malicious software stolen from the National Security Agency to attack tens of thousands of people in more than 70 countries.

U.S. and South Korean wartime operational plans, including a plan to wipe out the North Korean leadership, were stolen by North Korean hackers last year, a South Korean ruling party lawmaker said on Wednesday.

North Korean Hackers May Have Stolen $ 530 Million From a Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange, by Laignee Barron

Ding and Gao's familiarity with Macau would have been useful to North Korean hackers, says Steve Vickers, a former head of the Hong Kong Police Force's Criminal Intelligence Bureau who now runs an eponymous risk consulting company.

Recorded Future, a cybersecurity firm, published an analysis Tuesday laying out evidence that North Korean hackers — the same group, known as Lazarus, blamed for the infamous hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014 — were systematically targeting and plundering South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges.