It turned out that hackers belonging to the North Korean People’s Army Reconnaissance Office remitted a large sum of money stolen through hacking to a bank in South Korea.
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted three hackers belonging to the North Korean People’s Army Reconnaissance Office for committing cyber attacks and financial crimes from 2014 to last year, and disclosed their real names and facial photos.The Washington Post (WP) and other foreign countries The media reported.
According to the media, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a public complaint that hackers belonging to the North Korean People’s Army Reconnaissance Bureau tried to steal $1.3 billion (about 1.4 trillion won) of foreign currency and cryptocurrency by hacking all over the world in China and Russia. At the same time, the real names and face photos of hackers such as Jeon Chang-hyuk (32), Kim Il (27), and Park Jin-hyuk (37) were released.
According to the prosecution, the Reconnaissance Office has accessed banking systems in Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Taiwan, injecting malicious codes, and hacking the payment system code between international banks.
In addition, in January 2018, they accessed the Mexican Export-Import Banking System and transferred a total of 110 million dollars (about 120 billion won) to a bank account in Korea. However, the crime was discovered by the Export-Import Bank of Mexico, and it was only attempted. South Korean financial authorities have also helped prevent crimes by the Reconnaissance Office.
After infecting the system of a Korean cryptocurrency exchange with ransomware, the Reconnaissance General Bureau also leaked personal information after requesting 16 million dollars (about 17.7 billion won) and being rejected. He also committed a crime of breaking $2.3 million (about 2.5 billion won) by threatening to leak customer information by hacking into a casino system in a country in Central America. It also accessed a network of financial services companies in New York and stole cryptocurrencies worth about $11.8 million (about $13 billion).
Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security at the Justice Department John Demus accused North Korean hackers as’a global robber who uses keyboards instead of guns to steal cryptocurrency electronic wallets’.
