How criminals seemingly working for North Korea were able to plunder cashpoints in 28 countries.
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For the Cosmos heist, the hackers used a technique known as "jackpotting" - so-called because getting the ATM to spill its cash is like hitting the jackpot on a slot machine. British security company BAE Systems immediately suspected it was the work of the Lazarus Group. It had been monitoring them for months and knew they were plotting to attack an Indian bank. It just didn't know which one.
We asked Mike DeBolt, chief intelligence officer at Intel 471 - a tech security firm in the US - to find out more about this accomplice. North Korea has never admitted any involvement in the Cosmos Bank job, or any other hacking scheme. The BBC put allegations of involvement in the Cosmos attack to North Korea's embassy in London but received no reply.
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