Lazarus Group, BlueNorOff and Andariel are said to be behind the Sony hack, as well as the WannaCry hack that crippled UK’s health service
he US treasury placed sanctions on three North Korea government-sponsored hacking operations, which it said were behind the theft of possibly hundreds of millions of dollars and destructive cyber-attacks on infrastructure.
All three are tied to the Reconnaissance General Bureau, Pyongyang’s main intelligence bureau, and are behind numerous malicious computer viruses as well as attempts to steal billions of dollars online to fund the North Korean government, the US treasury said. “We will continue to enforce existing US and UN sanctions against North Korea and work with the international community to improve cyber-security of financial networks,” she said in a statement.
BlueNorOff was formed specifically to obtain revenue for the North Korean government, the treasury said. By hijacking the global banking transfer system SWIFT, by 2018 it had made attempts online to steal more that $1.1bn from financial institutions.Andariel specialises in targeting businesses, government agencies and individuals. It has been known to steal bank card information and hack into ATMs, and to steal bank customer information to sell on the black market.
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