Cyber News
Monday, 18th March 2019
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BRIEFING
North Korea has amassed upwards of $670 million worth of bitcoin and other currencies, according to a panel of experts reporting to the UN Security Council.
North Korea is successfully evading United Nations sanctions with increasingly sophisticated methods, enabling the regime to import more oil, expand coal exports, sell weapons and hack into foreign banks, according to a report by a U.N. panel of experts. The sanctions are designed to prevent Pyongyang from funding its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs and thereby pressure the regime to abandon its arsenal, but North Korea has carved out new ways to flout the U.N. sanctions, including deceiving global banks, insurers and commodity traders, said the U.N. panel's report, which was reviewed by NBC News and was published Tuesday.
A notorious Chinese cyber-espionage outfit known as the Winnti Group has breached the networks of two game makers and a gaming platform in Asia to include a backdoor trojan within their products.
WASHINGTON — Documents unsealed Thursday in a lawsuit have shed new light on how hackers breached Democratic Party email accounts before the 2016 election. The documents include a forensic analysis by a former top official in the FBI’s cybercrime division, which concluded that a web server company owned by a Russian entrepreneur was used by Russian operatives to hack Democratic Party leaders.
According to a report by Japan Today, an 18-year-old man, whose identity was withheld by the police, was prosecuted for hacking on Thursday. The hacker allegedly stole cryptocurrency worth 15 million yen from a platform. Its report also stated that the boy admitted to the allegations, stating that he “felt like [he had] found a trick no one knew and did it as if [he] were playing a video game.”
Israel suspects Iran of hacking election frontrunner Gantz’s phone.
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