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Until a few years ago, I was skeptical that North Korea had the technical expertise to pull off some of the hacking that was being attributed to them. In the pa

Until a few years ago, I was skeptical that North Korea had the technical expertise to pull off some of the hacking that was being attributed to them. In the past 5+ years, however, it's become increasingly clear that they have a well funded and dedicated team of competent hackers. The NSA and CIA, on the hand, are always assumed to have some of the best hackers in the world. So when I read that some huge exploit with multiple complex 0-days chained together has been discovered, and it's being attributed to the USA and/or Israel, I usually assume that's true because very few other countries have the ability to pull it off.

mike_d 5y ago
North Korean cyber capabilities were likely heavily thwarted for a long time by the fact that the United States could observe all the traffic entering and exiting the country. As a result they operate units completely overseas. North Korean students launch attacks from Indian Universities. They have networks of individuals that spend all day cashing out ATMs in Malta. The Chilbosan Hotel in Shenyang, China is a front used by the RGB as a forward base for cyber operations.