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| Handcuffed by sanctions, North Korea seeks cash via cyber theft |
| 2017-12-21 |
| [IsraelTimes] Some of the 7,000 hackers trained by Pyongyang pose as beautiful women on Facebook, strike online conversations and then send malicious ransomware files. The messages are alluring, the pictures are attractive. But the women seeking to beguile South Korean Bitcoin executives could actually be hackers from Pyongyang in disguise, experts warn. In the face of sanctions over its banned nuclear and ballistic missile programs, the cash-strapped North is deploying an army of well-trained hackers with an eye on a lucrative new source of hard currency, they say. |
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