🔰For the past few months, North Korea has often appeared in the news in connection with the threats of its leader Kim Jong-un to the US and other countries.
Response did not take long to wait - the United Nations, with the support of the United States and China, introduced new sanctions against the aggressively-minded state. The DPRK, in turn, changed rhetoric and moved on to active action.
🔰According to the research institute Cyber Warfare in South Korea, a hacker attack on the South Korean bitcoin stock exchange was recorded. The threat most likely came from North Korea.
This exchange has become one of many crypto-currency organizations that have undergone a large-scale hacker attack.
🔰Malicious software was distributed through e-mails sent to employees of exchanges, and probably after the opening of the letter, the entire computer network of the organization was infected. Until now, the final number of affected companies and the amount of losses of companies are unknown.
🔰But why, from the dumping of nuclear warheads near Japan, did Korea move to stealing crypto currency?
The answer is very obvious: sanctions supported by China put North Korea in a very difficult financial situation, and hacking of crypto-exchange exchanges can provide a good influx of income for the 'besieged' nation.
The only miscalculation of the Koreans is anonymity, since it is known that all transactions with bitcoin can be tracked by blockchain.
😎source: https://medium.com😎
This is more less a lesson to those who opened these emails. At this point in tech everyone should know well enough not to open things they don't recognize. Of course we still don't have everyone following that practice and as a result these are the kinds of things that take place. On the other hand we got those who have information on computers connected to the internet who need to have better security or have them on a computer not connected to the internet. It's really not more complicated then all of that.