The cyber threat from North Korea is real and growing, with tactics ranging from bank heists to the deployment of ransomware and the theft of cryptocurrency, edcaesar reports.
Roa remembers that his bosses found his request “shocking,” but they complied. An internal inquiry after the shutdown revealed that the company had indeed been in the middle of an attempted FASTCash breach. Such assaults normally take several months to execute. The hackers had first used a third-party criminal group for “social engineering.
The North Koreans’ failure at Redbanc was only a minor inconvenience. The hackers’ strategy is to catch many fish by casting a wide net. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has noted that, around the time of the attack on Redbanc, North Korean actors set in motion successful FASTCash assaults on dozens of banks in Asia and Africa, stealing tens of millions of dollars. In a single breach in 2017, money was simultaneously withdrawn from A.T.M.s in more than thirty countries.
Jesse Spiro, who is in charge of policy initiatives at Chainalysis, a private company that investigates cryptocurrency-related crime, told me recently that North Korean hackers have stolen at least $1.75 billion in digital coins from trading exchanges. This revenue stream alone could cover about ten per cent of North Korea’s total defense budget.
Robinson said that one of the most successful fake personas used by the Lazarus Group was Waliy Darwish—a man who supposedly worked for a cryptocurrency company, based in Michigan, called Celas L.L.C. The Lazarus Group invented both Darwish and Celas. LinkedIn profiles and other pages related to the persona and to the company are still active. On LinkedIn, Darwish poses as a graduate of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and says that his interests include Rolls-Royces.
A peel chain is designed to outwit automatic alerts, which search for the transit of a precise volume of cryptocurrency. The stolen coins were sent to two Chinese men, Tian Yinyin and Li Jiadong, who had opened accounts on other exchanges, including one in the U.S., using fake pictures and fake names. They then cashed out the coins and transferred the money to Chinese banks. According to the U.S.
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