An excerpt from the book “The Hacker and the State”, which includes details about North Korea's hacking campaigns against banks across the world
They scored $80 million by tricking a network into routing funds to Sri Lanka and the Philippines and then using a “money mule” to pick up the cash. Tweets: @harvard_press , @nicolas_veron , and @buchananben Tweets: @harvard_press : How North Korean hackers rob banks around the world. They scored $80 million by tricking a network into routing funds to Sri Lanka and the Philippines and then using a “money mule” to pick up the cash. The Hacker and the State by @BuchananBen in @WIRED https://www.wired.com/... Nicolas Veron / @nicolas_veron : “Notably, in January 2017, the North Koreans compromised a Polish financial regulator's systems and caused it to serve malicious code to any visitors to its websites, many of which were financial institutions.” https://www.wired.com/... Ben Buchanan / @buchananben : The folks at @WIRED have excerpted The Hacker and the State's take on North Korean bank hacking. It includes the brazen billion-dollar attempt against the Bank of Bangladesh, but also more than that, and there's even more in the book. https://www.wired.com/...