North Korean Hackers Reportedly Attack Bitcoin Exchange in South Korea

[Netnox]

If it became known that hackers from North Korea that means it is bad hackers. I think that politics intervened. Now those who benefits to accuse North Korea, and those who benefit from another thing blamed Russia. Hackers have no nationality. They attack from anywhere.

We are not talking about the money-minded hackers, who either operate individually or in groups. We are talking about groups of hackers, who are funded by the government agencies. All the major nations have such hacker armies, including Russia, United States, China, and North Korea.

[Osarman]

Cyber hackers from North Korea have reportedly targeted Bitcoin exchanges in South Korea in retaliation to new sanctions imposed by the United Nations against the hermit state as of late August 2017.

According to South Korea’s Cyber Warfare Research Center, at least one Bitcoin exchange was targeted by a hacking attempt that possibly originated from North Korea.

The assault was allegedly distributed through a dedicated email campaign. If the emails are opened by employees of the targeted exchanges, the attached malware will embed itself in the company's’ computer networks. So far, there are no exact figures on the number of exchanges that were hit by the attack.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/north-korean-hackers-reportedly-attack-bitcoin-exchange-in-south-korea

That's actually a good deal. It'll give us a little bit of pressure, and that's the kind of thing that keeps
Bitcoin to moving. It's hard to sell it such prices when there's no out there that wants to buy, but even though you create a fear-based economy it's still creates movement in the economy if that's what we need right now. Let Bunch people get scared drop their Bitcoin just fine by us.

[mondobitcoin]

I always thought that the korean and chines people are intelligent
But is no good exploit their mind for doing attacks, and maybe stole people moneys
Need to exploit their minds for something more helpful

[Carlsen]

I don't buy it. What's the total count of computers that connect into Internet in North Korea? (AFAIK it was only 4).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea#Service_providers_and_access

I think it's not N.Koreans, it's Chineese...

Don't buy it either.
I think that North Korea would have other priorities when hacking something in South Korea.
Basically everything military or something from the public infrastructure.
The only scenario I can think of that this makes sense is that private hacker did that. But then it makes no difference if they came from North Korea or from anywhere else in the world.
They made it just for the money.

[ivrynx]

is this news real? because if it is, it only means that even old computers can be used effectively for hacking.  We all know that sokor is years or even decades advance in technology when it compared to nokor, and surely their security is their first priority since anytime their neighbor nokor could attack them if they feel it. I think this news, came from someone who lost their bitcoins, and blaming it on nokor, since bitcoin exchanges though it can be hacked, it would take a very very long time and groups of very well trained hackers that could know how to infiltrate the stock market and change the amounts, in other words it is very hard but not impossible, and since that is he case, why would you waste time to attack an exchange if you could go ahead and scam just anybody, this news  is hardly believable, you will need a very advance technology, which i doubt nokor has. I think, nokor should really open its boundaries and show the world what it really has, and not just say that they are advance, i think they are just bluffing and there is just some kind of glitch on the part of the sokor exchange, and they are capitalizing on it so they can be threatened, we need to be more vigilant when it comes to news like this since nokor is already conisidered a terrorist since, they are planning to start a nuclear war with USA.

[totaleclipseofthebank]

Those lunatics. That is why I do not like North Korea. They are trying to do nonsense things to prove that they are strong. But in fact, they have nothing. Most of the citizen in the country is still very poor but the government keeps using the money to develop nuclear. They are insane

[ModGirl]

Those lunatics. That is why I do not like North Korea. They are trying to do nonsense things to prove that they are strong. But in fact, they have nothing. Most of the citizen in the country is still very poor but the government keeps using the money to develop nuclear. They are insane

I think North Korea wants to have some fun but I will never make a mistake to underestimate them. Man, those little creatures have even shut up the great America. Though it appears to be stupid attacking your neighbors but we don't know their intentions. Stay aware!
BTW, poverty is also found in America so don't make a fuss.

[Proteania Dev]

This looks like a carry over of the ideological divide between the two countries.