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To Stem North Korea's Missiles Program, White House Looks To Its Hackers (politico.com) 19

The Biden administration has spent much of the last two years bracing key U.S. networks and infrastructure against crippling cyberattacks from Russia, Iran and China. But it is following a different playbook as it ramps up its efforts to thwart digital threats from North Korea: Follow the crypto -- and stop it. From a report: Convinced North Korea primarily sees hacking as a way to funnel money back to the cash-strapped Kim Jong Un regime, the White House has focused on blocking the country's ability to launder the cryptocurrency it steals through its cyberattacks. In the last year, the administration has unveiled a flurry of sanctions against North Korean hacking groups, front companies and IT workers, and blacklisted multiple cryptocurrency services they use to launder stolen funds. Earlier this month, national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced a new partnership with Japan and South Korea aimed at cracking down on Pyongyang's crypto bonanza -- thereby choking off money to its nuclear and conventional weapons programs.

"In countering North Korean cyber operations, our first priority has been focusing on their crypto heists," Anne Neuberger, the National Security Council's top cybersecurity official, said in an interview. The stepped-up effort to blunt North Korea's cyber operations is fueled by growing alarm about where the fruits of those attacks are going, Neuberger said. Hacking, she argued, has enabled North Korea to "either evade sanctions or evade the steps the international community has taken to target their weapons proliferation ... their missile regime, and the growth in the number of launches we've seen."

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To Stem North Korea's Missiles Program, White House Looks To Its Hackers

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  • "Do you have kali installed on your home machine..?"
    "What a shame..."

  • Dennis Rodman to the rescue. From memory, things really deteriorated after Bush put N, Korea on the Axis of Evil list. Post 9-11, probably did not help things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] On another note, this Kim Jong Un music video just showed in Youtube yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
    • I mean, first you deny them any acceptable means of income, and then you are surprised they turn to unacceptable. News at eleven. Leave Britney fucking alone. All of their military stuff has one purpose only: to make sure nothing like what the US did to them in the Korea war ever happens again. The US of course reserves itself the right to do whatever it wants, and any movement counter to that lands you in the evil bin.
  • History has shown that between cutting on nuclear and famine, North Korea choose famine.
  • Also do they know Franklin sells NK bonds?

  • I recall seeing an interview with Michael Malice on YouTube where he predicted North Korea would fall in five year, what I don't recall is when that interview happened so I don't know if the clock ran out on that yet. For those not familiar with Michael Malice here's as good of an introduction as any, I guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

    North Korea has been on the edge of collapse for a very long time, and seeing them resort to hiring people to perform cryptocurrency scams, do whatever remote work th

    • You underestimate the power of slavery. Just ask Amerika.

    • by HBI ( 10338492 )

      Our propaganda about North Korea is as convoluted as the propaganda the NKs spew about us. There's no collapse underway. At least their propaganda is funnier.

      How's that belief that Putin was under threat in Russia working out or that Ukraine was going to defeat Russia with their counteroffensive?

      Wishful thinking is not a strategy.

  • Time the NSA become a profit center. Instead of using taxpayer 700 billion dollar to fund the military, learn from the North Koreans and have the NSA hackers fund it all through crypto heists of unfriendly countries.

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